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WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW 

A.M.,  PH.D. 

AS  PRESIDENT  OF 
TRINITY  COLLEGE 


DURHAM,  NORTH  CAROLINA 
NOVEMBER  9,  1910 


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INTRODUCTION 


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INTRODUCTION 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  in  Tune, 
1910,  John  Carlisle  Kilgo,  A.M.,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President 
of  Trinity  College  since  1894,  tendered  his  resignation, 
which  was  made  necessary  by  his  elevation  to  the  office  of 
bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  at  the 
general  conference  which  met  in  Asheville,  North  Carolina, 
in  May.  At  the  same  meeting  the  Trustees  elected  as 
President  of  the  College  William  Preston  Few,  A.M., 
Ph.D.,  Dean  of  Trinity  College. 

The  Trustees  authorized,  at  the  time  of  the  election  of 
President  Few,  the  appointment  of  a  committee  to  make  all 
necessary  arrangements  for  the  Inauguration,  which  should 
take  place  as  early  as  possible  in  the  following  autumn, 
but  not  until  the  Washington  Duke  Building,  West  Wing, 
could  be  completed.  The  committee  chosen  consisted  of 
Professors  Flowers,  Brown,  and  Wannamaker. 

Many  of  the  citizens  of  Durham  felt  that  the  coming 
of  so  many  distinguished  scholars  and  educators  to  the 
city  should,  in  some  fitting  way,  be  recognized.  The 
initiative  in  this  movement  was  taken  by  the  Merchants' 
Association.  To  aid  the  movement,  Mayor  Griswold 
issued  a  proclamation,  urging  all  citizens  to  co-operate. 
After  conferences  between  representatives  of  the  College 
and  the  citizens,  arrangements  were  effected  for  making  the 
day  an  occasion  for  both  the  College  and  the  city.  The  co- 
operation of  the  citizens  added  greatly  to  the  eclat  of  the 
Inauguration,  and  the  hospitality  of  many  of  them  in 
welcoming  to  their  homes  the  guests  of  the  College  made 
the  problem  of  entertainment  easy. 


Many  of  the  alumni,  invited  guests,  and  delegates 
reached  Durham  on  Tuesday,  November  8,  but  most  of 
the  delegates,  especially  those  from  the  North  and  East, 
came  on  the  morning  of  the  ninth.  To  make  it  possible 
for  them  to  reach  Durham  in  time  for  the  exercises  at 
nine  o'clock,  the  College  operated,  from  Greensboro  to 
Durham,  a  special  train  (consisting  of  dining-car  and 
Pullmans),  which  connected  at  Greensboro  with  trains 
from  New  York,  Washington,  and  from  points  in  the  far 
South.  Professor  Brown,  of  the  Committee  on  Arrange- 
ments, met  the  delegates  at  Greensboro  and  accompanied 
them  to  Durham.  The  train,  which  was  stopped  near 
the  entrance  to  the  campus,  was  met  by  a  delegation 
representing  the  College  and  the  citizens.  The  entire 
party  was  conveyed  in  automobiles  to  the  Washington 
Duke  Building,  West  Wing,  where  all  delegates  and  guests 
enrolled  and  put  on  academic  costume. 

The  Washington  Duke  Building,  West  Wing,  which 
was  practically  finished,  was  presented  to  the  Trustees  at 
a  quarter  to  ten  o'clock.  For  the  presentation  exercises 
tickets  had  been  issued  to  the  alumni,  members  of  the 
Faculties  and  their  wives,  the  Trustees,  the  guests,  and 
delegates.  Mr.  Frank  L.  Fuller  presented  the  building 
for  the  donor,  Mr.  Benjamin  N.  Duke,  and  Mr.  James 
H.  Southgate,  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  accepted 
it  for  the  Trustees. 

Immediately  after  the  presentation  of  the  building  the 
delegates,  specially  invited  guests,  members  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  and  of  the  Faculties  of  the  College,  and  the 
alumni  moved,  at  the  direction  of  the  marshal,  in  the 
order  of  procession,  to  the  Craven  Memorial  Hall,  where 
the  exercises  of  Induction  were  held.  As  the  first  section 
of  the  procession  was  mounting  the  steps  of  the  Hall,  the 
chorus,  which  consisted  of  over  thirty  of  the  city's  most 
talented  singers,  led  by  Mr.  T.  Edgar  Cheek,  began  the 
processional  hymn,  "How  firm  a  foundation";  the  audience 


joined  in  the  singing,  while  the  members  of  the  procession 
entered  the  building  and  repaired  to  the  seats  reserved 
for  them.  Section  I,  consisting  of  the  members  of  the 
Faculties  and  the  alumni,  was  seated  in  the  section  in 
front  of  the  stage,  while  those  in  sections  II  and  III,  con- 
sisting of  the  delegates  and  specially  invited  guests,  members 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  officers  of  the  College,  and 
speakers,  took  seats  on  the  stage. 

When  all  had  been  seated  and  the  singing  of  the  pro- 
cessional hymn  had  been  finished,  the  head  marshal, 
Professor  Flowers,  introduced  the  Reverend  Stonewall 
Anderson,  who  offered  the  Invocation.  Bishop  John 
Carlisle  Kilgo,  the  retiring  President,  representing  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  then  inducted  President  Few  into  office, 
presenting  to  him  the  Charter  and  Seal  of  the  College. 
When  President  Few  had  accepted,  in  earnest  words,  the 
trust  committed  to  him,  the  head  marshal  introduced 
the  speakers  who  delivered  addresses  of  congratulation 
— William  Walton  Kitchirf,  Governor  of  North  Carolina, 
in  behalf  of  the  Commonwealth,  and  Harry  Pratt  Judson, 
President  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  in  behalf  of  the 
honored  delegates.  Then  followed  President  Few's  in- 
augural address,  after  which  the  exercises  of  Induction 
were  closed  with  the  Benediction,  pronounced  by  Fred- 
erick William  Hamilton,  President  of  Tufts  College. 

While  the  orchestra  was  playing,  the  procession  moved 
from  the  Craven  Memorial  Hall  to  the  Washington  Duke 
Building,  West  Wing,  where  the  delegates,  in  the  order  of 
the  foundation  of  the  institutions  which  they  represented, 
were  presented  by  Professor  Brown  to  the  President  of 
the  College,  the  Retiring  President,  the  Governor  of  the 
State,  and  the  Commissioner  of  Education  of  the  United 
States. 

At  the  close  of  the  Presentation  of  Delegates,  a  photo- 
graph, which  is  reproduced  in  this  volume,  was  made  of  the 
delegates  and  guests  before  they  assembled  at  the  luncheon. 


Promptly  at  half -past  one,  the  delegates,  guests,  members 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  of  the  Faculties,  and  the  alumni 
—more  than  three  hundred  in  all — were  summoned,  by  the 
music  of  the  orchestra,  from  the  dressing-rooms  to  the 
luncheon  given  by  the  President  and  members  of  the 
Faculties.  After  making  a  most  pleasing  address,  James 
Hampton  Kirkland,  Chancellor  of  Vanderbilt  University, 
acting  as  toastmaster,  called  upon  Abbott  Lawrence  Lowell, 
President  of  Harvard  University,  Andrew  Fleming  West, 
Dean  of  Princeton  University,  Elmer  Ellsworth  Brown, 
Commissioner  of  Education  of  the  United  States,  John  F. 
Downey,  Dean  of  the  University  of  Minnesota,  William 
Walton  Kitchin,  Governor  of  the  State,  Frederick  Sheetz 
Jones,  Dean  of  Yale  University,  and  Edwin  Boone  Craig- 
head,  President  of  Tulane  University. 

While  the  delegates  and  guests  were  at  the  luncheon 
given  at  the  College,  the  ladies  accompanying  the  dele- 
gates were  being  entertained  at  a  luncheon  at  Greystone, 
the  residence  of  Mrs.  James  Edward  Stagg. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  luncheon  the  delegates  and 
guests  were  taken  over  the  city  in  automobiles  and  then 
conveyed  to  the  homes  of  the  citizens  who  had  kindly 
offered  to  entertain  them. 

At  nine  o'clock  P.M.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  Newton 
Duke  gave  a  reception,  at  their  home  on  Chapel  Hill  Street, 
to  the  delegates,  guests,  Trustees,  alumni,  members  of  the 
Faculties,  and  friends. 

Since  some  of  the  delegates  desired  to  attend  the  meet- 
ing of  the  Association  of  American  Universities  at  Char- 
lottesville,  Virginia,  on  the  following  day,  November  10, 
the  College  arranged  for  Pullmans  to  be  operated  by  special 
train  from  Durham  to  Greensboro  and  thence  by  regular 
train  to  Washington  so  that  the  trip  to  Charlottesville 
might  be  made  in  time  for  the  first  session  of  the  Asso- 
ciation. The  special  train  left  Durham  at  half-past  eleven, 
immediately  after  the  reception. 


About  eleven  o'clock  P.M.  the  students  of  the  College 
turned  out  in  a  body  to  celebrate  the  occasion.  Each 
carrying  a  brilliant  torch  or  lantern,  they  marched  to  the 
home  of  Mr.  Duke  to  serenade  the  hosts  and  lingering 
guests,  visited  the  railway  station  to  speed  with  songs  and 
cheers  of  appreciation  and  good-will  the  departing  guests 
on  the  special  train,  held  up  the  President's  automobile, 
on  its  way  from  the  reception,  to  manifest  their  love  for 
him  in  heartiest  cheers  and  special  songs,  and  closed  the 
night's  serenades  with  a  visit  to  the  home  of  the  Retiring 
President  to  show  him,  by  touching  tokens,  their  genuine 
affection  for  him  and  their  deep  appreciation  of  his  long 
and  unselfish  service  to  the  institution  which  had  been 
so  singularly  honored  in  the  exercises  of  the  day. 


CONTENTS 

PAGE 

PRESENTATION  OF  THE  WASHINGTON  DUKE  BUILDING,  WEST 
WING 3 

ORDER  OF  THE  PROCESSION 15 

PROGRAM  OF  THE  EXERCISES  OF  INDUCTION        .       .       .       .19 

THE  INVOCATION 23 

THE  INDUCTION  AND  THE  PRESENTATION  OF  CHARTER  AND  SEAL    27 
THE  ACCEPTANCE 33 

ADDRESSES  OF  CONGRATULATION: 

Governor  William  Walton  Kitchin 37 

President  Harry  Pratt  Judson 39 

THE  INAUGURAL  ADDRESS 47 

THE  PRESENTATION  OF  DELEGATES  AND  GUESTS        .       .       -59 

SPEECHES  AT  THE  LUNCHEON: 

Chancellor  James  Hampton  Kirkland,  Toastmaster       .       .67 

President  Abbott  Lawrence  Lowell 71 

Dean  Andrew  Fleming  West      .        .        .        .        .        .        -75 

Honorable  Elmer  Ellsworth  Brown 79 

Dean  John  F.  Downey 83 

Governor  William  Walton  Kitchin 89 

Dean  Frederick  Sheetz  Jones 95 

President  Edwin  Boone  Craighead 99 

APPENDIX: 

Forms  of  Invitations,  Circulars,  etc 107 

Reduced  Copy  of  the  Program  . 135 

Circular  of  Information  for  Delegates  and  Guests         .        .141 

Circular  of  Instructions  to  Alumni 143 

Circular  of  Information  for  Members  of  the  Faculties   .        .  145 

Circular  of  Information  for  Marshals 147 

Tickets  of  Admission 149 


APPENDIX  (Continued) —  PAGE 

Facsimile  of  the  Order  of  Seating  at  the  Luncheon       facing  151 
Luncheon  Menu.     Announcement-Form         .        .        .        .151 

Facsimile  of  Announcement-Form 153 

Delegates  from  Other  Institutions 157 

Specially  Invited  Guests 165 

Board  of  Trustees  of  Trinity  College 169 

Faculty  of  Trinity  College 171 


LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS 

PRESIDENT  WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW        ....    Frontispiece 

THE  PROCESSION  RETURNING  FROM  CRAVEN  MEMORIAL  HALL 

Facing  page     1 7 

BISHOP  JOHN  CARLISLE  KILGO        ....    Facing  page    27 
A  GROUP  OF  THE  DELEGATES  AND  GUESTS     .       .    Facing  page  157 


THE  PRESENTATION 


THE  PRESENTATION  OF 

THE  WASHINGTON  DUKE  BUILDING 
WEST  WING 


THE  PRESENTATION  EXERCISES 

9:30-10:00  A.M. 

THE  PRESENTATION 

FRANK  LANNEAU  FULLER 

In  behalf  of  the  donor,  Benjamin  Newton  Duke 

THE  ACCEPTANCE 

JAMES  HAYWOOD  SOUTHGATE 

The  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 


THE  PRESENTATION 

FRANK  LANNEAU  FULLER 
In  behalf  of  the  donor,  Benjamin  Newton  Duke 

Mr.  Benjamin  N.  Duke,  the  giver  of  this  building,  has 
asked  me  to  present  it  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Trinity 
College.  On  this  glad  occasion  Mr.  Duke  presents  the 
building  to  this  College  with  great  good-will  because  he 
believes  the  College  stands,  and  will  always  stand,  for  the 
things  that  promote  peace,  security,  and  strength  in  the 
State  and  in  the  Nation.  As  a  new  administration  is  this 
day  formally  put  in  charge  of  the  College,  he  wishes  for  it  a 
long  life  of  wide-extending  influence  and  usefulness. 


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THE  ACCEPTANCE 


THE  ACCEPTANCE 


JAMES  HAYWOOD  SOUTHGATE 
The  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 


In  behalf  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Trinity  College 
and  with  deep  and  grateful  appreciation  I  accept  this  hand- 
some building  now  nearing  completion.  It  is  welcomed  for 
its  own  sake  and  for  its  own  uses,  and  it  is  the  more  gladly 
welcomed  because  it  is  but  the  first  in  an  extensive  and 
imposing  scheme  of  buildings  which  will  be  pushed  to  com- 
pletion as  rapidly  as  possible,  and  which,  when  finished, 
will  give  the  College  adequate  housing  for  a  good  many 
years  to  come.  But  it  is  most  of  all  welcomed  because  it  is 
just  another  in  a  long  series  of  benefactions  from  one  whose 
heart  and  hope  and  resources  never  fail  the  College.  For  a 
decade  and  a  half  those  who  work  at  the  problems  of  this 
college  have  been  steadily  inspired  by  the  unfailing  sym- 
pathy and  the  wise  care  and  thought  that  have  been 
lavished  upon  the  College  by  him  whose  philanthropy  has 
made  possible  this  building  and  so  much  of  the  success  of 
the  College  —  that  high-minded,  true-hearted  friend  and 
benefactor,  Mr.  Benjamin  N.  Duke.  For  good  deeds  like 
these  and  especially  for  good-will  like  this  the  College  can 
never  be  sufficiently  grateful.  But  it  will  do  its  best  to  pay 
such  debts  by  intense  devotion  to  progress  and  the  widest 
human  service. 


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THE  PROCESSION 

[After  the  Presentation  Exercises,  the  Honorable  Dele- 
gates, Specially  Invited  Guests,  Members  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  and  of  the  Faculties,  and  the  Alumni  formed  in  pro- 
cession and  moved  to  the  Craven  Memorial  Hall.} 


ORDER  OF  THE  PROCESSION 

CHIEF  MARSHAL 
AIDS 


I 

AIDS 

THE  PROFESSORS  OF  THE  COLLEGE 

THE  PROFESSORS  IN  THE  SCHOOL  OF  LAW 

THE  ASSISTANT  PROFESSORS  OF  THE  COLLEGE 

THE  OTHER  MEMBERS  OF  THE  FACULTIES  OF 
THE  COLLEGE 

THE  ALUMNI  OF  THE  COLLEGE  IN  ORDER  OF 
THEIR  CLASSES 


II 

THE  COLLEGE  MARSHAL 

THE  DELEGATES  FROM  OTHER  INSTITUTIONS 

THE  SPECIALLY  INVITED  GUESTS 


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Ill 

AIDS 
THE  MEMBERS  or  THE  BOARD  or  TRUSTEES 

THE  BURSAR,  Bearing  the  Keys 
THE  LIBRARIAN,  Bearing  the  Charter 

THE  SECRETARY  TO  THE  CORPORATION, 
Bearing  the  Seal 

THE  DEAN  OF  THE  FACULTY  OF  LAW 

THE  DEAN  OF  THE  COLLEGE 

THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

THE  MAYOR  OF  THE  CITY  OF  DURHAM 

THE  GOVERNOR  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH 

THE  REVEREND  STONEWALL  ANDERSON 

FREDERICK  WILLIAM  HAMILTON,  President  of  Tufts  College 

THE  RETIRING  PRESIDENT 

HARRY  PRATT   JUDSON,   President   of   the  University  of 

Chicago 

THE  PRESIDENT-ELECT 


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THE  INDUCTION 


THE  EXERCISES  OF  INDUCTION 

THE  CRAVEN  MEMORIAL  HALL 

PROCESSIONAL  HYMN 

1  How  firm  a  foundation,  ye  saints  of  the  Lord, 
Is  laid  for  your  faith  in  His  excellent  Word ! 
What  more  can  He  say  than  to  you  He  hath  said, 
Who  unto  the  Saviour  for  refuge  have  fled  ? 

2  "Fear  not,  I  am  with  thee,  oh,  be  not  dismayed, 

For  I  am  thy  God,  and  will  still  give  thee  aid; 

I'll  strengthen  thee,  help  thee,  and  cause  thee  to  stand, 

Upheld  by  My  righteous,  omnipotent  hand. 

3  "When  through  the  deep  waters  I  call  thee  to  go, 

The  rivers  of  sorrow  shall  not  overflow; 
For  I  will  be  with  thee,  thy  troubles  to  bless, 
And  sanctify  to  thee  thy  deepest  distress. 

4  "When  through  fiery  trials  thy  pathway  shall  lie, 

My  grace,  all-sufficient,  shall  be  thy  supply; 
The  flame  shall  not  hurt  thee :  I  only  design 
Thy  dross  to  consume,  and  thy  gold  to  refine. 

5  "Even  down  to  old  age  all  My  people  shall  prove 

My  sovereign,  eternal,  unchangeable  love; 
And  when  hoary  hairs  shall  their  temples  adorn, 
Like  lambs  they  shall  still  in  My  bosom  be  borne. 

6  "The  soul  that  on  Jesus  hath  leaned  for  repose, 

I  will  not,  I  will  not  desert  to  his  foes; 

That  soul,  though  all  hell  should  endeavor  to  shake, 

I'll  never,  no  never,  no  never  forsake!" 


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INVOCATION 

THE  REVEREND  STONEWALL  ANDERSON,  D.D. 

Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Education 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South 

THE  INDUCTION  AND  THE  PRESENTATION  OE 
THE  CHARTER  AND  SEAL 

JOHN  CARLISLE  KILGO,  A.M.,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

The  Retiring  President,  Bishop  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South 

THE  ACCEPTANCE 

THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  COLLEGE 

ADDRESSES  OF  CONGRATULATION 

THE  HONORABLE  WILLIAM  WALTON  KITCHLN 

The  Governor  of  the  Commonwealth 

in  behalf  of  the  State 

HARRY  PRATT  JUDSON,  A.M.,  LL.D. 

The  President  of  the  University  of  Chicago 

in  behalf  of  the  Honorable  Delegates 

THE  INAUGURAL  ADDRESS 

PRESIDENT  WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW,  PH.D. 

BENEDICTION 

FREDERICK  WILLIAM  HAMILTON,  D.D.,  LL.D. 
The  President  of  Tufts  College 

MUSIC 


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THE  INVOCATION 


INVOCATION 


THE  REVEREND  STONEWALL  ANDERSON,  D.D. 

Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Education 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South 


0  God  of  our  fathers,  we  praise  Thee;  we  worship  Thee. 
Infinitely  worthy  art  Thou  to  receive  our  adoration.  We 
depend  upon  Thee  for  all  sustenance,  both  material  and 
spiritual.  Thou  art  the  fountain  of  all  power  and  knowledge 
and  wisdom  and  righteousness  and  goodness  in  heaven  and 
in  earth.  Out  of  the  eternal  stability  and  harmony  of  Thy 
life  flow  all  law  and  all  order  in  the  vast  domain  which  lives 
and  moves  and  has  its  being  in  Thee. 

"Behold  the  heaven  and  the  heaven  of  the  heavens 
cannot  contain  Thee."  Thou  art  the  God  of  all  worlds 
and  of  all  life,  the  contemporary  of  all  time  and  of  all 
eternity;  still,  Thou  art  very  near  unto  us  this  day;  in  Thy 
Son  we  have  come  to  know  Thee  as  our  Father-God,  inter- 
ested in  our  lives  and  in  our  labors.  In  Thy  great  Spirit 
Thou  art  in  us  to  purify  and  to  ennoble,  the  joy  of  our 
hearts  and  the  inspiration  of  our  achievements. 

Through  men  whose  lives  were  dominated  by  faith  in 
Thee,  Thou  didst  establish  this  institution  of  learning; 
hitherto  it  has  been  conducted  by  men  who  have  ever 
relied  upon  Thee. 

Cause  this  great  assemblage  to  be  profoundly  conscious 
of  Thy  gracious  presence,  we  implore  Thee.  Richly  bless 
him  who  is  this  day  inducted  into  the  office  of  president  of 
this  college.  Throughout  his  administration  may  he  have 
illumination  and  wisdom  and  strength  from  Thee  that  he 


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may  worthily  discharge  the  responsible  and  delicate  duties 
of  this  office.  Do  Thou  continue  to  dwell  in  fulness  of 
blessing  in  the  lives  of  the  instructors  and  students,  trustees 
and  benefactors,  and  friends  and  patrons  of  this  institution; 
and  may  they  give  to  the  President  effectual  and  hearty 
cooperation  and  support.  Cause,  Thou,  the  affairs  of  this 
seat  of  learning  to  continue  to  be  so  controlled  and  directed 
that  it  shall  be  more  and  more,  as  the  years  come  and  go, 
a  potent  agency  in  building  wisely  and  well  the  Common- 
wealth and  the  Nation,  the  Church  to  which  it  belongs,  and 
the  Kingdom  of  Thy  Son. 

Forgive  our  offenses,  receive  our  praise  and  worship, 
and  grant  our  petitions,  we  ask  in  the  name  of  Christ,  our 
Lord.  Amen. 


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THE  INDUCTION  AND  THE  PRESENTATION 
OF  THE  CHARTER  AND  SEAL 


THE  INDUCTION  AND  THE  PRESENTATION  OF 
THE  CHARTER  AND  SEAL 


JOHN  CARLISLE  KILGO,  A.M.,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

The  Retiring  President,  Bishop  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South 


Both  for  personal  and  official  reasons  I  count  it  a  high 
honor  to  be  the  delegated  representative  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  at  this  joyous  instant  of  your  inauguration  into 
the  presidency  of  Trinity  College.  I  do  not  violate  the 
proprieties  of  the  occasion  when  I  assure  you,  Sir,  that  your 
election  to  this  office  was  wholly  due  to  a  well-founded 
faith  in  your  personal  character  and  your  eminent  fitness 
in  every  way  to  discharge  the  large  and  delicate  duties 
that  belong  to  it.  You  are  no  stranger  to  this  college  and 
it  is  no  stranger  to  you.  The  fourteen  years  of  wise, 
devoted,  and  efficient  service  you  have  given  here  have 
afforded  you  ample  opportunity  to  learn  the  spirit 
and  the  aims  of  Trinity  College,  and  fairness  requires  me 
to  say  that  your  labors  have  been  one  of  the  leading  factors 
in  its  remarkable  progress.  Trustees,  alumni,  and  its  hosts 
of  friends,  scattered  throughout  the  earth,  with  glad  confi- 
dence, commit  this  day  to  your  keeping  and  defense  the 
virtue  of  their  college  and  their  Alma  Mater,  feeling  well 
assured  that  you  will  do  all  within  your  power  to  promote 
its  good  and  make  it  an  everlasting  source  of  light  and  bene- 
fit. It  is  evident  that  Trinity  College  is  now  entering  upon 
the  largest  chapter  in  its  history  and  that  the  Greater 
Trinity  College  will  be  the  term  by  which  your  adminis- 
tration will  be  best  distinguished  and  described. 


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But  I  heartily  congratulate  you  upon  coming  into  the 
possession  of  such  a  large  organ  through  which  to  express 
your  thought  and  faith,  and  such  a  great  agency  through 
which  to  serve  your  day  and  generation.  In  saying  this 
I  do  not  have  in  mind  simply  the  material  assets  in  grounds, 
buildings,  endowment,  and  apparatus,  all  of  which  are 
absolutely  necessary  and,  as  you  already  well  know,  cry 
perpetually  for  enlargement,  but  I  have  in  mind  especially 
those  immense  assets  you  can  never  itemize  on  your  stock 
accounts  or  value  in  the  terms  of  the  market. 

You  will  find  inspiration  in  the  labors  of  the  other  gen- 
erations of  men  who  have  wrought  here  and  whose  spirits 
seem  to  breathe  in  the  life  of  the  College.  All  the  material 
resources  here  are  the  translations  of  faiths  and  loves  and 
hopes,  a  mighty  volume  in  which  has  been  written  the 
stories  of  the  noblest  impulses  that  stir  the  human  heart. 
The  voices  of  generous  benefactors  will  always  call  to  you, 
and  the  deeds  of  their  unselfish  hearts  will  always  be  be- 
fore your  eyes.  As  an  illustration  of  immovable  courage, 
untiring  energy,  unselfish  devotion,  patriotic  faith,  and  a 
belief  in  mankind,  the  history  of  this  college  is  unsurpassed 
if,  indeed,  it  is  not  unrivaled  among  southern  colleges. 
Every  page  of  its  record  blazes  with  the  glory  of  a  faith 
that  will  hearten  you  for  your  responsible  tasks. 

Among  the  most  valuable  resources  of  Trinity  College 
are  great  hosts  of  friends,  composed  of  high-minded,  patriotic, 
and  progressive  American  citizens.  They  are  devoted  to 
this  college,  and  their  devotion  through  all  the  past  years 
has  been  a  tower  of  strength,  even  as  an  indestructible 
wall  about  it. 

But,  Sir,  there  is  a  Trinity  family,  and  a  great  family  it 
is.  Year  by  year  it  increases.  It  has  its  sacred  roll  of 
noble  sons  who  did  grandly  their  work  and  died,  but  her 
highest  hopes  and  proudest  days  are  not  in  the  ceme- 
tery. Her  sons  in  every  honorable  walk  of  life,  laboring 
as  they  are  in  all  quarters  of  the  globe,  by  their  fidelity  to 

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duty,  allegiance  to  truth,  and  loyalty  to  all  that  is  high, 
are  adding  new  splendor  to  the  name  of  Alma  Mater. 
They  love  their  college  because  they  believe  in  it.  Sacred 
to  them  as  the  virtues  of  their  human  mothers  is  the  virtue 
of  this  college.  They  will  keep  a  jealous  watch  over  you 
as  the  guardian  of  their  Alma  Mater,  and,  Sir,  they  will  be 
to  you  a  right  hand  of  power  in  all  your  labors  for  the  good 
of  Trinity  College  and  the  services  it  may  tender  state, 
nation,  and  church. 

There  is  a  spirit  of  unity  and  cooperation  that  pervades 
and  rules  the  life  of  this  college.  Out  of  a  good  and  some- 
what vigorous  experience  I  can  speak  on  this  matter  with 
much  certainty.  The  Board  of  Trustees,  the  members  of 
your  faculties,  and  your  students  will  give  you  cordial  and 
unstinted  support,  and  you  may  trust  them  as  the  unvary- 
ing companions  in  a  common  labor. 

However,  there  are  limitations,  though  of  truth  and 
righteousness,  and  these  do  not  restrain — they  make  free. 
The  formulated  doctrines  and  aims  of  Trinity  College  give 
unity  and  continuity  to  its  history;  so  administrators  may 
change,  but  the  principles  and  purposes  do  not  change. 
That  you  may  be  well  advised  of  these  things,  I  am  com- 
missioned by  the  Board  of  Trustees  to  present  to  you  first 
the  Charter  of  Trinity  College.  It  bears  the  great  seal  of 
the  Commonwealth  and  confers  upon  this  college  all  its 
rights  as  an  educational  corporation.  And  by  this  act  of 
the  Legislature  this  college  is  in  the  truest  sense  a  part  of 
the  State's  system  of  education. 

I  also  present  to  you  the  Seal  of  the  College.  The 
design  is  a  simple  design,  but  upon  whatever  document 
it  is  impressed  it  is  a  mark  of  dignity  and  a  guaranty  of 
honor  and  honorable  dealings. 

Lastly,  I  present  you,  Sir,  a  copy  of  the  Constitution  and 
By-Laws  of  Trinity  College.  By  these  you  will  be  guided 
in  administering  the  affairs  of  your  office.  In  the  first 
article  is  set  forth  in  these  clear  and  positive  terms  the 


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policy  of  the  College:  "The  aims  of  Trinity  College  are  to 
assert  a  faith  in  the  union  of  knowledge  and  religion  set 
forth  in  the  character  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  Son  of  God;  to 
advance  learning  in  all  lines  of  truth;  to  defend  scholar- 
ship against  all  false  notions  and  ideals;  to  develop  a  Chris- 
tian love  of  freedom  and  truth;  to  promote  a  sincere  spirit 
of  tolerance;  to  discourage  all  partisan  and  sectarian  strife; 
and  to  render  the  largest  permanent  service  to  the  individual, 
the  state,  the  nation,  and  the  church.  Unto  these  ends 
shall  the  affairs  of  this  college  always  be  administered." 

The  Trustees  having  chosen  you  to  the  presidency  of 
this  college,  I  now  by  their  orders  invest  you  with  all  the 
dignity,  privileges,  and  authority  of  the  office  and  pray  that 
Almighty  God,  the  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  may 
grant  you  wisdom,  patience,  courage,  and  strength  to  do 
all  the  things  required  of  you. 


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THE  ACCEPTANCE 


THE  ACCEPTANCE 


WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW,  PH.D. 
The  President  of  Trinity  College 


These  symbols  of  the  office  which  the  Board  through 
you  has  committed  to  me  I  accept  in  a  full  sense  of 
the  responsibilities.  I  will  do  my  level  best  to  keep  the 
future  worthy  of  the  past  and  to  make  the  College  serv- 
iceable in  all  possible  ways  to  the  causes  of  men. 


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ADDRESSES  OF  CONGRATULATION 


ADDRESS  OF  CONGRATULATION 


His  EXCELLENCY,  WILLIAM  WALTON  KITCHIN 
The  Governor  of  North  Carolina 


I  am  very,  very  glad  to  participate  in  the  pleasure  of 
this  great  occasion,  which  has  brought  together  so  many 
distinguished  gentlemen  from  this  and  other  states.  The 
occasion  is  one  of  great  importance  in  the  history  of  the 
educational  life  of  North  Carolina.  Our  state,  year  after 
year,  is  placing  a  greater  premium  upon  cultural  progress. 
It  is  laying  broad  and  deep  the  foundations  of  popular 
education.  It  has  witnessed  the  completion  of  a  public 
schoolhouse  every  day  for  the  last  seven  years.  The 
number  of  our  sons  and  daughters  who  demand  collegiate 
training  is  rapidly  increasing  and  must  continue  to  increase 
even  more  rapidly  as  material  prosperity,  on  the  farms,  in 
the  factories — among  all  classes  of  our  people — increases 
in  our  state.  There  must  be  more  and  more  young  men 
who  will  desire  higher  learning.  Trinity  College  has  done 
much  in  the  past,  is  doing  much  now,  and  will  continue  to 
do  much  in  the  future  to  supply  this  demand.  Her  sons 
are  filling  honorable  and  useful  positions  throughout  the 
State.  Two  of  them  today  represent  this  state  in  the 
United  States  Senate,  and  two  of  them  are  in  the  lower 
house  of  Congress.  Ladies  and  gentlemen,  the  demand 
of  our  young  men  and  young  women  for  more  thorough 
training  and  higher  education  must  force  all  of  our  seats 
of  learning  rapidly  to  enlarge  their  capacity. 

As  Governor  of  North  Carolina,  I  congratulate  Trinity 
College  on  its  new  President.  I  congratulate  him  upon 


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the  honorable,  useful,  and  responsible  position  which  he 
assumes.  By  training  and  ability,  by  character  and  cul- 
ture, he  is  worthy  of  the  trust  which  today  rests  upon 
his  shoulders,  and,  in  the  name  of  the  people  of  North  Caro- 
lina, I  extend  him  good  cheer  and  hearty  sympathy  in  his 
task.  He  now  becomes  the  center  of  your  college  life. 
From  him  will  radiate  the  ideals  and  aspirations  in  large 
part  that  will  inspire  those  who  kneel  at  Trinity's  shrine. 
I  count  not  only  Trinity  College  but  also  North  Carolina 
fortunate  in  the  promotion  of  Dr.  Few  to  this  eminent 
position.  Splendid  buildings,  full  libraries,  extensive  labo- 
ratories, alone,  can  never  impart  the  inspiration  that  leads 
to  a  better  life  and  a  useful  manhood.  The  youth  looks 
up  and  catches  it  from  those  who  bear  the  principles  and 
elements  of  good  character  and  noble  conduct  in  their  own 
lives.  The  intellectual  paragon  may  be  neither  just  nor 
useful  to  his  fellows — he  may  even  be  the  curse  of  man- 
kind. The  learning  that  leads  neither  to  justice  nor  to 
service  to  humanity  is  cruel,  is  heartless,  and  undesirable. 

Ladies  and  gentlemen,  fortunate  it  is  for  the  young 
man  or  young  woman  of  the  South  to  sit  at  the  feet  of 
Christian  culture,  full  of  deep  sympathy,  broad  humanity, 
and  unwavering  integrity. 

Therefore,  in  the  name  of  the  State  and  its  people,  I 
again  congratulate  Trinity  College  upon  securing  such  a 
competent  successor  to  the  talented,  the  magnetic,  the 
eloquent  Bishop  Kilgo. 


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ADDRESS  OF  CONGRATULATION 


HARRY  PRATT  JUDSON,  A.M.,  LL.D. 
The  President  of  the  University  of  Chicago 


To  share  in  the  higher  education  is  an  honor  and  a 
privilege.  To  be  intrusted  with  the  executive  direction 
of  an  institution  devoted  to  that  education  involves  also 
a  heavy  responsibility.  The  college  has  a  unique  function 
in  our  American  life,  infinitely  potent  for  good  certainly, 
and  perhaps  for  ill.  It  means,  we  say,  the  dissemination 
of  knowledge — the  college  is  an  institution  of  learning. 
Knowledge  is  a  privilege,  is  a  power,  is  a  danger.  It  is 
indeed  the  key  which  unlocks  the  gates  of  good  and  evil. 
Every  high  civilization  has  been  the  fruitage  of  profound 
knowledge.  All  barbarism,  all  defective  civilization,  is  the 
concomitant  of  ignorance.  The  increase  of  human  knowl- 
edge, both  in  the  acquirement  of  new  truths  and  in  their 
wide  distribution,  has  brought  new  forms  of  comfort,  of 
safety,  of  happiness.  The  mastery  of  new  forms  of  truth 
has  meant  control  of  the  forces  of  Nature  by  human  will 
and  for  human  use.  It  has  also  meant  a  better  organiza- 
tion of  society,  protection  for  the  weak,  justice  and  security 
for  all.  Our  enlightened  age,  we  think,  has  remedied 
many  evils.  We  know  how  to  remove  the  causes.  By 
intelligent  sanitation  we  have  made  the  Isthmus  of  Panama 
the  salubrious  home  for  toiling  thousands.  We  can  elimi- 
nate yellow  fever  and  malaria  and  typhoid.  Modern 
scientific  medicine  has  displaced  the  blind  dogmatism  of 
the  old  practice  and  saves  its  tens  of  thousands  where  the 
old  schools  cured  their  hundreds.  We  have  done  away 


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with  serfdom  and  with  political  autocracy.  Republics 
in  fact  or  in  substance  have  displaced  despotisms.  Schools, 
colleges,  hospitals  abound.  We  care  for  the  indigent,  for 
the  sick,  for  the  insane,  and  we  seek  to  open  the  blessings 
of  education  to  all  the  community.  Enlightenment,  in 
other  words,  knowledge,  has  been  everywhere  at  the  root 
of  this  wonderful  progress. 

The  theory  that  knowledge  is  the  exclusive  attribute  of 
any  artificial  social  class  has  everywhere  broken  down. 
There  will  always  be  enough  of  those  who  are  ignorant. 
It  will  always  be  hard  enough  to  keep  the  progress  of  the 
world  in  the  lines  of  intelligence,  and  it  needs  a  constant 
influx  of  cultivated  brains  for  the  adequate  educated  power. 
English  aristocracy  lives  because  of  a  constant  transfer 
from  nobility  and  commons  and  the  reverse.  The  new 
creations  pour  into  the  nobility  a  tide  of  new  blood.  So 
the  aristocracy  of  education  is  constantly  reinforced  by 
nom  homines,  the  parvenus  of  culture,  if  you  like,  whose 
rugged  strength  supplies  the  loss  of  educated  feebleness. 

Perhaps  not  all  the  college-trained  men  reach  the  height 
of  culture  which  rigorous  study  implies.  The  ages  are  not 
very  unlike.  Youth  is  about  the  same  in  all  the  generations 
and  in  all  lands.  Those  who  are  willing  to  engage  in 
severe  mental  toil  have  always  been  the  remnant.  The 
joys  of  life  and  the  bliss  of  idleness  have  always  had  a 
charm  for  young  sensibilities.  Those  who  have  become 
scholars,  not  merely  by  virtue  of  what  they  know,  but 
because  they  understand  and  because  they  have  learned 
to  think  consecutively,  these  are,  and  always  will  be,  the 
minority.  The  masses  in  schools  of  all  grades  will  always 
do  the  minimum  of  work  and  will  seek  the  maximum  of 
pleasure.  The  college  may  be  a  source  of  benefit  to  such. 
Surely  it  is  if  it  gives  some  tincture  of  education  of  mind 
and  if  it  successfully  trains  to  a  noble  standard  of  conduct. 
But  it  is  idle  to  expect  that  the  lofty  ideals  of  the  scholar's 
life  and  attainments  will  be  those  which  characterize  the 


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great  body  of  those  who  pass  through  college  walls.  The 
true  test,  then,  of  what  the  college  does  is  in  its  production 
of  a  chosen  few  who  will  be  the  leaders  of  thought.  The 
English  idea  of  a  pass  and  an  honor  course  in  a  sort  of  way 
recognizes  this  diversity  of  result.  The  leaders  of  every 
age  are  the  men  who  really  create  the  age.  The  rough- 
hewn  but  powerful  men  who,  with  little  schooling,  yet 
give  direction  to  social  advance,  are  the  outcome  of  tem- 
porary conditions.  In  an  older  civilization,  like  that  of 
England  and  Germany,  we  find  the  university  men,  on  the 
whole,  in  the  seats  of  the  mighty.  As  the  ages  pass  and  the 
turbulent  waters  of  our  new  land  settle  into  quiet,  we  may 
expect  that  here,  too,  the  trained  men  will  usually  be  in 
the  places  of  authority. 

Of  late  years  there  has  been  an  increasing  amount  of 
criticism  of  our  colleges,  bearing  both  on  their  efficiency 
to  do  what  they  profess  to  do  in  their  special  work,  and  on 
the  character  of  the  young  men  who  form  the  student-body. 
It  is  not  my  purpose  at  this  time  to  consider  how  far  these 
criticisms  are  well  grounded.  This  only  I  beg  to  have  you 
observe:  the  colleges  are  no  isolated  phenomenon,  but 
are  a  part  of  society  and  may  be  expected  fairly  to  reflect 
the  general  social  conditions.  The  ideals,  methods  of  life, 
and  standards  of  judgment  which  pertain  to  society  at 
large — these  we  must  expect  to  find  among  the  college 
students.  On  the  whole  they  will  differ  little  in  their  ethi- 
cal standards  from  the  average  of  men  outside  the  college. 
They  will  seek  the  same  sort  of  pleasures  and  will  subject 
life  as  it  passes  to  much  the  same  sort  of  criticism.  No 
college  authorities  can  segregate  their  students  from  the 
world,  even  should  it  be  a  part  of  the  world,  a  part  of  the 
world  in  the  making,  if  you  please,  but  still  a  part  of  the 
real  world,  not  an  abstract  fraction  shut  in  by  library 
walls.  College  boys  will  be  uniformly  self-denying,  high 
minded,  industrious,  when  American  society  is  character- 
ized by  self-restraint  and  simplicity  of  life. 


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But,  in  fact,  our  riotous  material  prosperity  has  got 
into  the  heads  of  modern  society  like  a  strong  wine.  Is 
there  not  too  far  an  inversion  of  values  in  much  of  our 
present-day  thinking  ?  Is  not  the  final  test  of  the  conduct 
of  life  too  generally  put  in  the  attainment  of  happiness? 
Is  not  this  the  secret  of  a  large  part  of  the  self-indulgence 
which  is  so  freely  charged  to  the  colleges  ? 

But  the  philosophy  of  happiness  as  the  main  end,  a 
modern  pseudo-epicureanism,  is  totally  fallacious.  Hap- 
piness as  an  immediate  object  of  pursuit  is  the  will-o'-the- 
wisp,  it  is  the  end  of  the  rainbow — it  is  anything  you 
please  which  signifies  what  crumbles  in  the  grasp  and 
vanishes  away  when  seized.  The  true  standard  of  life, 
then,  is  not  the  attainment  of  happiness,  but  obedience  to 
duty  and  honor.  This  is  always  within  the  limits  of  the 
attainable.  Happiness  belongs  to  the  realm  of  tomorrow. 
Duty  is  with  us  now,  and  honor  is  the  breath  in  the  nostrils 
with  each  heart-beat.  Happiness  may  or  may  not  come 
to  one  whose  life  is  under  the  sway  of  a  high  sense  of  duty; 
whether  indeed  such  a  one  attains  happiness  is  a  question 
wholly  secondary.  A  sense  of  living  an  honorable  life, 
if  not  itself  happiness,  is  at  least  a  good  substitute  for  it. 
Life  is  worth  living,  with  or  without  material  success,  if 
indeed  it  is  a  life  of  duty  faithfully  done.  And  the  brightest 
promise  in  our  modern  age  lies  in  those,  within  or  without 
college  walls,  who  grasp  this  conception  of  the  main  values 
of  life  and  are  seeking  to  render  service  rather  than  to  grasp 
at  gratification  of  the  senses. 

Here,  then,  lies  the  function  of  the  college — to  keep 
inflexibly  true  to  the  ideal  of  intellectual  attainments  as 
a  worthy  aim  and  to  set  self-restraint  and  honor  above 
pleasure  as  a  just  standard  of  life.  The  college  thus  will 
do  its  part  toward  that  revival  of  the  fine  spirit  of  chivalry, 
which  is  the  salt  that  keeps  sweet  any  society  worth  pre- 
serving at  all. 

I  have  been  speaking,  as  becomes  the  occasion,  of  the 


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college,  not  of  the  university.  The  latter,  if  it  is  a  cluster 
of  colleges,  as  we  often  find,  has  at  bottom  this  same  funda- 
mental aim.  Quite  commonly,  to  be  sure,  there  is  a  second 
purpose  in  a  university  of  this  class,  the  fitting  of  the  student 
for  some  specific  function  in  life.  But  this  adaptation, 
valuable  as  it  is,  by  no  means  is  adequate  to  the  best  social 
results  unless  the  basic  idea  of  college  education  is  also 
preserved  inviolate.  The  engineer  is  an  important  factor 
in  economic  progress;  but  the  engineer  who  fails  to  real- 
ize acutely  the  honor  of  his  profession,  who  for  a  moment 
consents  to  tarnish  that  honor  by  connivance  with  dishonest 
contractors,  or  who  in  any  other  way  puts  immediate  per- 
sonal profit  above  fidelity  to  professional  ideals,  is  not 
better,  but  far  more  dangerous  to  the  community  by  virtue 
of  his  technical  education.  The  graduate  of  the  law  school 
also  is  fitted  at  much  cost  of  time  and  money  to  enter  on  an 
honorable  calling.  The  political  organization  of  the  state, 
and  the  rendering  of  justice  between  man  and  man,  will 
always  lie  largely  in  the  hands  of  the  legal  profession.  The 
lawyer  who  scrupulously  observes  a  lofty  sense  of  duty  to 
the  public,  rather  than  to  a  paying  client,  is  of  enormous 
value  to  the  society  of  which  he  is  a  member.  The  legal 
shyster  is  an  eruption  on  the  body  politic,  an  indication  of 
poisoned  blood — in  short,  a  mere  filth  disease.  So  with 
all  professions  the  trained  professional  man  who  is  worth 
while  keeps  always  in  mind  the  best  inspiration  of  a  real 
chivalry — noblesse  oblige. 

The  universities  of  the  higher  type,  the  ones  which,  like 
those  of  Germany  and  some  in  this  country,  have  the  gradu- 
ate schools  as  their  essence,  are  under  somewhat  different 
conditions.  They  take  the  college  graduate,  whose  char- 
acter should  be  formed  already,  and  devote  their  energies 
to  making  him  a  specialist  in  some  field  of  science.  The 
problem  is  quite  different,  and  must  be  approached  in  a 
quite  different  way.  The  university,  as  we  are  of  late  begin- 
ning to  understand  it,  is  one  thing,  the  college  another. 


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But  the  college  has  a  vital  function  in  all  our  states. 
As  it  performs  that  function  well,  the  generation  into  whose 
hands  the  control  of  society  will  shortly  pass  can  be  trusted 
to  make  its  day  better  and  sounder  and  more  replete  with 
the  things  which  make  life  worth  living  than  has  been  any 
past  age. 

I  congratulate  this  college,  then,  on  its  opportunity  for 
a  priceless  service  to  North  Carolina  and  to  the  South, 
and  I  congratulate  the  new  President  on  the  great  trust 
which  is  placed  in  his  hands. 


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THE  INAUGURAL  ADDRESS 


THE    INAUGURAL  ADDRESS 


WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW,  PH.D. 
The  President  of  Trinity  College 


It  would  seem  to  be  appropriate  for  me,  on  an  occasion 
like  this,  to  give  as  clearly  as  I  can  my  conception  of  the 
place  of  the  college  in  southern  development,  and,  coming 
closer  home,  to  say  plainly  what  I  think  Trinity  College 
should  undertake  to  do.  This  last  is  the  easier  for  the 
fact  that  I  have,  during  the  past  fourteen  years,  sustained 
intimate  relations  to  the  administration  of  the  College,  and 
with  that  administration  have  been  in  complete  accord. 
I  find  now  that  the  way  has  been  marked  out  by  my  prede- 
cessor and  that  the  College  has  only  to  go  on  to  the  com- 
pletion of  the  tasks  it  has  already  set  before  itself. 

The  structural  break  with  the  past  caused  by  the  Civil 
War  and  succeeding  events  has  made  difficult  and  important 
our  political  readjustment  and  the  right  mediation  of  the 
present  between  our  past  and  our  future.  But  apart  from 
any  considerations  of  history  and  without  regard  to  any 
theory  or  school  of  politics  it  must  be  plain  to  us  all  that, 
in  a  democracy  where  everything  is  determined  by  majori- 
ties, every  intelligent  man  should  carefully  inquire  into 
the  merits  of  all  questions  upon  which  he  is  to  cast  his 
ballot  and  should  vote  his  matured  convictions,  rather  than 
settle  these  questions  as  if  they  were  matters  of  course, 
off-hand  and  in  obedience  to  ancient  sentiment.  In  the 
part  of  the  South  with  which  this  college  is  immediately 
concerned,  freedom  of  speech  and  freedom  of  action  in 
politics  are  today  complete.  But  here  as  everywhere  else 


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in  the  country  we  need  to  intensify  the  sense  of  responsi- 
bility that  is  imposed  by  the  right  to  vote  upon  every 
thoughtful  and  upright  man.  And  here  perhaps  more 
than  elsewhere  in  America  we  need  the  courage  and  moral 
energy  which  compel  a  man  to  speak  the  thoughts  that 
are  in  him  and,  when  the  time  comes,  to  stand  up  and  be 
counted,  whether  girt  by  friend  or  foe.  Just  as  for  many 
years  it  has  been  teaching,  Trinity  College  will  continue, 
both  by  precept  and  example,  to  teach  this  sort  of  resolute 
doing  of  one's  public  duties. 

Upon  the  college  in  the  South  rests  the  further  duty  of 
mediation  between  the  religious  conservatism  of  this  region 
and  the  great  intellectual  ferment  of  the  age.  Again  the 
problem  is  to  keep  the  good  that  has  come  to  us  out  of  the 
past  and  adjust  it  to  the  conditions  and  needs  of  the  present. 
The  influential  place  which  the  church  holds  in  the  South 
I  should  like  to  see,  not  only  abide,  but  grow  and  extend; 
for  it  is  the  business  of  the  church  to  guide  the  spiritual 
forces  that  control  the  world.  The  southern  college,  if  it 
be  wise  enough  to  understand  its  opportunity,  will  work 
in  hearty  cooperation  with  the  churches.  It  will  not  seek 
to  make  friends  with  the  churches  for  the  purpose  of  using 
them  as  bill-boards  on  which  to  advertise  its  wares;  it 
will  not  court  their  good-will  in  order  to  rally  its  constitu- 
ency; but  in  all  sincerity  it  will  labor  with  them  just  to 
the  end  of  strengthening  and  sweetening  human  life.  The 
aim  of  Trinity  College  is  stated  by  the  words  on  its  seal, 
" Religion  and  Education";  not  two  but  one  and  insep- 
arable: religion  that  comprehends  the  whole  of  life  and 
education  that  seeks  to  liberate  all  the  powers  and  develop 
all  the  capacities  of  our  human  nature. 

One  of  our  first  tasks  is  the  material  uplifting  of  the 
section,  the  development  of  all  kinds  of  business,  the  creation 
of  wealth,  and  the  building  of  vital  forces  of  civilization.  We 
are  now  in  the  midst  of  a  great  industrial  awakening — even 
in  the  old  business  of  agriculture  a  new  day  has  arrived. 


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In  solving  the  problems  of  the  new  industrialism  education 
has  a  part  to  play;  and  I  am  not  now  thinking  of  industrial 
education.  For  while  every  individual  ought  to  be  trained 
with  some  reference  to  the  kind  of  life  he  is  going  to  live, 
yet  I  for  one  do  not  wish  to  see  money-making  set  at  the 
heart  of  the  education  of  southern  people.  Greed  is  already 
perhaps  our  characteristic  national  vice,  and  it  does  not 
need  the  fostering  of  education.  Southern  people  are 
poor  and  ought  to  be  encouraged  by  every  right  method 
to  get  their  share  of  the  wealth  and  physical  well-being 
that  have  been  more  widespread  in  other  parts  of  America, 
but  to  educate  a  race  of  mere  money-makers  would  hurry 
in  an  era  of  sordid  materialism  that  would  be  a  more  dead- 
ening blight  to  right  and  worthy  living  than  ignorance  and 
poverty  have  been.  Let  us  have  wealth  and  the  training 
of  wealth-producers;  but  let  us  not  give  to  industrial  train- 
ing an  undue  emphasis  in  the  education  of  youth. 

Of  all  the  confusions  and  tragedies  that  followed  the 
Civil  War  in  the  South,  perhaps  the  most  pathetic  have 
been  the  chaotic  educational  conditions  of  the  last  half- 
century.  There  has  been  progress  in  the  direction  of  a 
rational  system  of  education,  but  we  are  not  yet  out  of  the 
wilderness.  In  all  educational  reform  the  college  should 
furnish  its  full  share  of  leadership.  And  this  means  that 
it  must  not  be  content  to  ride  upon  whatever  may  happen 
to  be  the  popular  wave,  but  it  must  resist  fads  and  bad 
tendencies,  as  well  as  encourage  and  direct  right  tendencies. 
Trinity  College  will  always  throw  itself  unreservedly  into 
the  doing  of  the  supreme  duty  of  the  hour.  A  while  ago 
it  was  at  any  cost  to  break  the  shackles  of  politics  and 
traditionalism.  Today  it  is  to  put  within  reach  of  every 
child  the  opportunities  of  the  elementary  school,  the 
grammar  school,  and  the  high  school.  This  task  is  made 
extraordinarily  difficult  by  the  double  system  of  education 
that  must  be  maintained  for  the  two  races;  and  in  this 
great  task  every  bit  of  strength  the  State  can  command 


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from  all  sources  for  the  next  ten  years  should  be  concen- 
trated. To  consolidate  all  the  forces  in  the  State  for  this 
purpose  and  to  utilize  them  so  that  the  largest  and  most 
beneficent  results  may  follow  is  a  proposal  that  should  com- 
mand the  heart  and  hope  of  all  enlightened  men  and  women. 

I  have  sought  to  emphasize  my  belief  that  our  colleges 
should  give  themselves  to  the  doing  of  the  hard  tasks  of 
society  and  that  educated  men  should  do  their  full  stint 
of  work.  Attention  ought  also  to  be  paid  to  the  gentler 
side  of  southern  civilization.  The  hospitality,  the  gra- 
ciousness,  the  beauty  and  purity  of  the  social  life  were  the 
best  characteristics  of  the  old  order.  The  grace  and  charm 
of  our  elders  in  their  best  estate  have  gone  and  have  been 
succeeded  by  much  that  is  crude  and  raw  in  our  life.  In 
the  discipline  and  invigorating  of  mind,  in  the  formation 
of  tastes,  and  in  the  amendment  of  manners  which  come 
through  the  right  kind  of  education  will  be  found  the  surest 
nourishment  for  the  poise  and  fineness  of  temper  that 
make  cultivated  men  and  high-bred  civilizations. 

These  are  some  of  the  ways  in  which  a  college  may 
promote  the  interests  of  society  if  it  is  controlled  by  wide 
sympathies  and  a  spirit  of  constructive  helpfulness.  It  is 
not,  however,  among  the  direct  aims  of  the  college  to  edu- 
cate publicists  or  ministers  or  skilled  workmen  or  teachers, 
but  to  send  out  graduates  who  have  been  trained  for  effi- 
ciency and  who  are  equipped  with  trustworthy  character. 
The  college  that  is  doing  most  to  produce  these  qualities 
of  efficiency  and  character  is  rendering  the  largest  service 
to  the  world.  These  are  precisely  the  qualities  that  are 
needed  in  politics,  in  the  church,  in  business,  in  education, 
and  in  society.  Many  lines  of  business  and  some  other 
forms  of  endeavor  in  America  have  grown  faster  than  men 
have  been  developed  to  manage  them.  And  this  failure 
of  American  civilization  to  develop  an  adequate  supply 
of  efficient  and  trustworthy  men  gives  whatever  of  justi- 
fication there  may  be  for  the  belief  held  by  a  good  many 


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foreigners  and  others  that  our  form  of  government  is  break- 
ing down  at  some  points. 

There  is  a  feeling  rather  widespread,  though  I  am  not 
sure  it  is  just,  that  the  college  of  today  does  not  make  as 
surely  for  efficiency  and  character  as  did  the  college  of 
other  days.  The  college  has  certainly  in  some  ways  gained, 
and  perhaps  in  others  it  has  lost,  ground.  The  old  curricu- 
lum with  its  fixed  studies  and  severe  disciplines  has  been 
liberalized  and  enriched.  American  colleges  have  grown 
and  have  improved  their  facilities  for  education  until,  in 
the  matter  of  educational  opportunities,  the  best  of  them 
are  perhaps  unexcelled  in  the  world.  But  it  is  becoming 
increasingly  clear  that  it  is  not  enough  for  the  college  to 
provide  even  the  richest  of  opportunities  for  its  students 
and  then  unconcernedly  leave  them  to  use  or  neglect  the 
opportunities  as  they  may  see  fit.  Ways  and  means  must 
be  found  to  make  education  take  effect.  The  educational 
appliances  must  somehow  be  brought  into  live  connection 
with  undergraduate  callowness.  There  is  a  saying  current 
in  German  universities  that  one- third  fail,  one- third  go  to 
the  devil,  but  that  the  remaining  third  govern  Europe. 
This  survival  represents  too  great  a  loss  of  human  life. 
Freedom  of  opportunity  must  mean  freedom  to  go  to  destruc- 
tion, but  in  the  case  of  college  youth,  freedom  must  be 
hedged  about  with  restraints.  The  fine  old  phrase  "cure 
of  souls,"  if  extended  to  include  cure  of  minds  and  bodies, 
would  define  the  function  of  the  college. 

The  four  years  in  college  ought  to  be  very  happy  years 
in  every  man's  life — happy  not  because  he  spends  them  in 
idleness  or  luxury,  but  because  they  are  years  full  of  effort 
and  achievement,  of  generous  friendships  and  inspiring 
ideals,  full  of  youth  and  hope.  A  normal  man,  if  he  once 
get  a  taste  of  it,  enjoys  vigorous  work  and  wholesome 
living.  The  educational  opportunities  offered  by  the 
prosperous  colleges  of  the  East  or  the  big  state  universities 
of  the  West  are  unquestionably  far  superior  to  the  oppor- 


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tunities  that  can  be  offered  by  the  struggling  colleges  of 
the  South.  But  there  are  evils  of  prosperity  as  well  as 
evils  of  adversity.  And,  despite  all  our  limitations,  it  is 
probably  no  more  difficult  for  us  than  for  them  to  secure 
vigorous  intellectual  work  and  wholesome  living;  in  fact, 
I  am  encouraged  to  believe  that  the  conditions  are  ripe 
for  the  building  of  some  great  colleges  in  the  South.  But 
we  shall  have  to  profit  by  the  experiences  of  colleges  else- 
where— by  their  successes  and  by  their  failures.  Espe- 
cially must  we  learn  how  to  bring  the  processes  of  education 
effectively  to  bear  on  a  larger  proportion  of  students. 
The  growing  importance  that  secondary  concerns  hold  in 
the  thought  of  undergraduates  is  more  and  more  tending 
to  obscure  the  true  ends  of  a  college  course.  If  we  will 
take  command  of  the  situation  before  the  tyranny  of  pub- 
lic opinion  is  fastened  upon  us  by  students,  young  alumni, 
and  communities  taught  to  demand  this  sort  of  entertain- 
ment at  the  hands  of  colleges,  then  I  believe  it  will  be 
possible  for  us  to  shift  the  center  of  interest  from  athletics 
and  other  equally  irrelevant  undergraduate  absorptions 
to  the  intellectual  pursuits  and  wholesome  recreations 
that  are  proper  to  college  life.  This  shifting  of  the  center 
of  gravity  will  be  helped  by  adequate  regulation  and  due 
subordination  of  athletics;  by  demanding  strict  attendance 
upon  college  duties;  by  exacting  a  reasonable  amount  of 
intellectual  work;  and  by  enforcing  rigorous  standards  of 
scholarship.  In  developing  our  colleges  we  have  the 
chance  to  put  upon  self-cultivation  and  wholesome  living 
an  emphasis  they  do  not  now  usually  get  in  American 
colleges. 

Our  opportunity  consists  partly,  too,  in  magnifying 
the  office  of  the  teacher.  For  its  teachers  the  college  needs 
men  of  ideas  and  power  rather  than  experts  in  the  several 
branches  of  learning.  The  almost  exclusive  use  of  scholar- 
ship tests  in  the  selection  of  teachers  is,  in  my  judgment, 
one  of  the  gravest  defects  in  American  colleges  and  even 


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in  the  greatest  American  universities.  Scholarship  enters 
essentially  into  the  making  of  a  good  teacher,  but  so  do  also 
a  genuine  interest  in  young  men  and  some  gift  for  teaching. 
Graduate-school  ideals  have  worked  themselves  down  into 
the  college  to  the  serious  detriment  of  the  college.  I  have 
nothing  but  praise  for  the  painstaking  investigation  and 
thoroughgoing  honesty  that  belong  to  the  best  scholarship 
of  our  time.  Unceasing  search  for  truth  is  necessary  to 
insure  the  continued  progress  of  the  race;  and  every  wise 
man  will  keep  a  mind  open  toward  truth  in  all  its  phases. 
I,  of  course,  believe  in  perfect  freedom  to  teach  and  free- 
dom to  learn.  But  I  do  not  regard  the  speculative  pursuit 
of  new  truth  as  the  main  end  of  college  education.  The 
search  for  truth  is  in  itself  profitable,  but  the  search  is  most 
profitable  when  it  results  in  finding  truth  and  in  making 
the  widest  applications  of  it  to  human  life  and  human 
conduct.  An  undergraduate  ought  not  to  be  ever  learn- 
ing and  never  able  to  come  to  the  knowledge  of  the  truth. 
The  thin  air  of  highly  speculative  knowledge  cannot  nour- 
ish hardy  and  robust  manhood.  Probably  everybody 
knows  truth  enough  to  save  his  life  if  he  would  use  what  he 
knows.  Some  things,  after  all,  are  known,  and  there  is  no 
need  for  a  man  to  stop  and  build  his  own  bridge  every  time 
a  bridged  river  crosses  his  path.  If  a  perfect  college  curricu- 
lum could  be  framed,  I  believe  it  would  insure  to  every 
student  familiarity  with  the  best  that  has  been  wrought 
out  of  the  experience  of  the  race  and  close  contact  with 
such  studies  as  are  fitted  to  produce  in  him  "soberness, 
righteousness,  and  wisdom  ";  and  then  it  would  leave  room 
for  individual  tastes  and  aptitudes. 

To  give  the  proper  oversight  to  the  studies  of  under- 
graduates is  not  enough;  their  living  conditions,  their 
conduct,  and  their  habits  must  be  looked  after.  The 
minds  need  rectifying,  but  just  as  often  the  lives  need  to 
be  renovated.  What  profiteth  it  a  man  though  he  speak 
with  the  tongues  of  men  and  of  angels  and  leave  college 


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a  dyspeptic;  though  he  understand  all  knowledge  and  have 
the  habit  of  spending  money  that  does  not  belong  to  him, 
or  be  confirmed  in  any  of  the  other  fatal  vices  that  beset 
college  youth?  Conduct,  as  Matthew  Arnold  has  said, 
is  more  than  three-fourths  of  life.  If  their  work  is  to  be 
of  the  highest  value,  colleges  must  find  and  control  the 
motive-powers  that  lie  at  the  basis  of  character.  I  admit 
it  is  hard  to  keep  other  things  equal;  but,  other  things  being 
equal,  the  so-called  small  college,  with  its  intimate  con- 
tacts and  direct  methods,  probably  has  the  best  chance 
to  do  the  sort  of  teaching  that  forms  as  well  as  informs. 

If  the  southern  college  is  to  be  a  leader  for  conservative 
progress  in  this  generation,  it  must  be  given  a  free  hand. 
To  stand  against  reaction  on  the  one  side  and  radicalism 
on  the  other  it  needs  a  great  deal  of  power.  It  must,  by 
its  organization,  be  safeguarded  against  the  dangers  of  mob- 
opinion  and  the  possibilities  of  inefficient  control.  To 
stand  for  correct  ideals  and  even  fight  for  them  when  neces- 
sary and  at  the  same  time  to  keep  in  sympathetic  relations 
with  the  people  whom  it  would  serve  is,  perhaps,  the  most 
difficult  problem  that  a  southern  college  in  our  time  has  to 
solve. 

Regard  for  the  voices  of  political  expediency  and  pliant 
opportunism  has  time  and  again  proved  disastrous  to  the 
southern  states  as  it  has  often  proved  disastrous  to  other 
American  states.  Minds  unpracticed  in  cogent  thinking 
usually  seek  to  catch  the  nearest  way  and  follow  the  line 
of  least  resistance.  The  college  that  aspires  to  a  place  of 
leadership  in  the  service  of  the  republic  must  at  times 
resist  with  all  its  power  the  mighty  local  influences  that 
would  sway  it  from  its  true  course.  To  have  faith  in  the 
future  of  America  at  all,  or,  for  that  matter,  to  contem- 
plate human  life  with  any  degree  of  patience,  one  must 
believe  that  the  people  wish  to  do  right  and  in  the  long  run 
and  in  the  main  will  do  right;  and  more  and  more  we  are 
going  to  rely  upon  the  people.  But  this  does  not  mean 


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that  they  have  the  expert  knowledge  to  manage  a  college 
any  more  than  it  means  that  they  are  competent  to  argue 
a  point  of  law  before  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States  or  to  treat  an  acute  case  of  pneumonia.  The 
susceptibility  of  a  pliable  democracy  to  periodic  attacks 
of  national  or  sectional  hysterics,  the  oft-used  power  of 
sensational  newspapers  and  alarmist  popular  leaders  to 
"insurrect  the  public  mind7'  ought  in  the  colleges  always 
to  find  bulwarks  against  which  they  beat  in  vain.  Only 
the  college  that  is  strong  enough  to  survive  these  fearful 
testings  can  fulfill  in  our  civilization  the  mission  that  great 
colleges  should  fulfill. 

Such  colleges  must  also  occasionally  rouse  themselves 
to  the  still  more  ungracious  task  of  resisting  the  imposition 
upon  them  from  the  outside  of  ideas  that  would  hurt  them. 
There  are  competent  and  conscientious  educational  experts 
in  our  time  who  seem  to  ignore  the  fact  that  a  college  must 
be  in  large  part  the  product  of  development  and  not  a 
forced  growth;  and  that  it  should  follow  the  lines  of  its 
own  development  and  not  be  made  to  form  itself  on  some 
wholly  extraneous  model.  Forced  conformity  to  types 
of  organization  that  prevail  elsewhere  and  are  there  regarded 
as  ideal  would  unfit  southern  colleges  for  doing  the  very 
service  to  which  they  seem  by  circumstances  to  be  ordained. 
Against  this  subtle  danger  I  believe  that  Trinity  College 
will  set  itself  with  all  its  might. 

Another  temptation  from  which  our  colleges  should 
turn  is  the  temptation  to  strive  for  bigness.  The  vicious 
doctrine  of  numbers  has,  I  think,  never  been  more  over- 
worked than  in  American  institutions  of  education.  The 
desire  to  be  big  rather  than  great  is  responsible  for  many 
of  the  evils  from  which  American  colleges  are  suffering 
today.  Some  of  these  evils  are  temporary  and  due  to 
quick  growth  and  inability  of  the  colleges  at  once  to  adjust 
themselves  to  the  new  conditions.  We  at  the  South  have 
not  suffered  from  this  cause,  but  we  are  in  danger  of  delib- 


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erately  taking  over  some  of  the  evils  from  which  circum- 
stances have  kept  us  free.  One  result  of  this  over-anxiety 
for  size  and  numbers  is  the  ruinous  tendency  for  colleges 
to  be  concerned  primarily  about  their  immediate  interests- 
more  students,  bigger  buildings,  increased  appropriations, 
larger  gifts — rather  than  to  serve,  and  when  necessary  even 
to  suffer  for,  the  great  causes  of  mankind.  This  kind  of 
striving  must  benumb  the  noblest  aspirations  and  make 
impossible  the  truest  success  of  colleges;  for  colleges,  like 
men,  are  subject  to  the  immutable  law  of  greatness  through 
service.  The  greatness  of  a  college  depends  not  upon  the 
size  of  its  plant  or  the  number  of  its  students,  but  upon  the 
quality  of  the  men  who  teach  and  the  quality  of  the  men 
who  learn,  upon  its  ideals  and  its  influence. 

We  here  have  no  ambition  to  be  miscalled  a  univer- 
sity; we  are  not  even  concerned  that  this  shall  be  a  "big" 
college;  but  we  are  immensely  concerned  that  it  shall  be 
a  shining  place  where  high-minded  youth  may  catch  aspira- 
tions to  true  character  and  genuine  excellence,  and  whence 
into  this  vast  experiment  in  democratic  government  that 
is  being  tried  out  on  the  American  continent,  there  shall 
go  a  long  succession  of  men  who  have  been  trained  to  think 
straight  and  to  think  through  to  right  conclusions,  and 
who  have  been  made  strong  by  the  power  to  know  the  truth 
and  the  will  to  live  it. 


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THE  PRESENTATION  OP  DELEGATES 


THE   FORMAL   PRESENTATION   OF   DELEGATES 

AND 

SPECIALLY  INVITED  GUESTS 

TO  THE 

PRESIDENT  OF  THE  COLLEGE 

THE  RETIRING  PRESIDENT  OF  THE   COLLEGE 

THE  GOVERNOR  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NORTH 

CAROLINA 

AND 

THE    COMMISSIONER   OF   EDUCATION   OF   THE 
UNITED  STATES 

THE  WASHINGTON  DUKE  BUILDING,  WEST  WING 
12:30  P.M. 


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ROLL  CALL  AND  PRESENTATION  OF  DELEGATES 
AND  SPECIALLY  INVITED  GUESTS 

PROFESSOR  FRANK  CLYDE  BROWN 

I  have  the  honor,  Mr.  President,  to  present  to  you  and 
the  distinguished  gentlemen — John  Carlisle  Kilgo,  the 
Retiring  President,  Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  South,  His  Excellency,  William  Walton  Kitchin, 
Governor  of  the  State  of  North  Carolina,  the  Honorable 
Elmer  Ellsworth  Brown,  Commissioner  of  Education  of 
the  United  States — who  receive  with  you  and  thus  honor 
this  occasion  so  auspicious  to  you  and  the  Institution 
which  has  this  day  been  committed  into  your  hands,  these 
eminent  scholars  and  educators  who  come  as  the  repre- 
sentatives of  many  of  the  most  splendid  institutions  hi 
our  nation. 

[For  the  list  of  delegates  and  guests  see  p.  157] 


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SPEECHES  AT  THE  LUNCHEON 


SPEECHES  AT  THE  LUNCHEON  TO  DELEGATES, 
SPECIALLY  INVITED  GUESTS,  MEMBERS  OF 
THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES  AND  OF  THE  FACUL- 
TIES OF  THE  COLLEGE,  AND  THE  ALUMNI 

THE  WASHINGTON  DUKE  BUILDING,  WEST  WING 

I    P.M. 


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JAMES  HAMPTON  KIRKLAND 

CHANCELLOR  or  VANDERBILT  UNIVERSITY 
Toastmaster 

In  calling  this  assemblage  to  order,  I  find  myself  in  a 
rather  awkward  position.  I  have  been  asked  by  the  chair- 
man of  the  Committee  on  Ceremonies  and  by  the  President 
of  Trinity  College  to  take  the  place  which  properly  belongs 
to  him  at  this  banquet  and  to  act  as  Master  of  Ceremonies. 

This  is  the  first  mistake  that  the  new  President  has 
made  in  his  administration.  (Laughter.)  We  trust, 
however,  that,  on  account  of  his  youth,  his  administra- 
tion will  not  be  wrecked  by  it. 

I  have  accepted  for  several  reasons:  first,  because 
I  have  never  yet  denied  myself  the  pleasure  of  carving  a 
turkey  furnished  by  another,  and,  secondly,  because  I  have 
been  most  closely,  and  I  may  say  affectionately,  related  to 
Trinity  College,  to  the  new  President  and  to  the  old  Presi- 
dent. I  use  that  last  adjective  with  all  the  meanings  that 
properly  attach  to  it.  (Laughter.)  I  may  say  that  I 
have  the  right  to  take  liberties  with  one  who  was,  in  days 
long  past,  my  own  pupil.  I  do  not  claim  that  I  taught 
him  much,  but  that  was  my  fault  and  not  his.  (Laughter.) 
However,  the  affectionate  relations  established  between  us 
then  have  continued  even  to  this  good  hour  in  spite  of  the 
fact  that,  after  my  efforts  to  make  him  a  bishop  were 
successful,  and  he  had  been  honored  with  the  highest  office 
of  his  church,  the  first  thing  he  did  was  to  bring  suit  to 
eject  me  from  my  position.  (Laughter.)  But  even  to  that 
cruel  thrust  I  make  answer  now  in  the  words  of  the  poet, 
"With  all  thy  faults  I  love  thee  still."  (Laughter.) 


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But  if  I  may  have  the  privilege  of  further  remarks  at 
this  time,  I  desire  to  extend  a  hearty  welcome  to  these, 
our  guests,  who  have  come  to  us  from  almost  every  state. 
We  welcome  you  most  heartily.  The  South  may  not  be 
as  solid  now  as  it  has  been.  (Laughter.)  The  returns 
from  Tennessee,  the  great  daughter  of  North  Carolina — 
the  state  that  I  have  the  honor  to  represent — are  such  as 
to  cause  a  little  unhappiness  to  His  Excellency,  the  Gov- 
ernor, who  sits  by  my  side.  (Laughter.)  But,  at  least, 
you  will  admit  this,  that  when  Tennessee  goes  Republican 
and  Massachusetts  goes  Democratic,  the  people  are  begin- 
ning to  think  for  themselves.  (Laughter.) 

But  the  South  is  solid  in  one  thing — it  is  solid  still  in 
its  feeling  of  hospitality  and  in  the  glad  welcome  that  it 
offers  to  every  visitor  from  every  clime;  so  we  greet  these 
friends  today  with  a  glorious  autumn  day  that  has  no 
equal  in  all  the  seasons.  The  colors  of  your  colleges  have 
been  thrown  over  our  trees — the  glorious  crimson  of  Har- 
vard, the  orange  of  Princeton,  the  gold  of  my  own  insti- 
tution, and  even  though  the  blue  of  Yale  is  absent  from  the 
trees,  it  is  not  absent  from  the  violets  that  spring  under 
our  feet  and  from  the  great  dome  that  bends  with  a  bene- 
diction above  us.  (Loud  applause.)  We  welcome  you 
to  a  great  state,  for  this  is  indeed  a  great  state.  (Loud 
applause.) 

His  Excellency,  the  Governor,  will  allow  me  to  quote 
a  story  that  comes  from  his  mansion,  but  from  a  prede- 
cessor of  his — a  story  told  by  Governor  Aycock,  whose 
name  is  still  pleasantly  remembered  by  educational  work- 
ers. (Applause.)  Governor  Aycock  told  me  that  on  one 
occasion  he  pardoned  a  man  out  of  the  penitentiary  on  the 
condition  that  he  leave  North  Carolina  and  never  come 
back.  The  man  left,  and  of  course  went  to  Texas.  After 
a  year  he  wrote  a  letter  which  read:  "Dear  Governor: 
I  shall  be  at  your  office  on  or  about  the  first  of  next  month. 
You  can  do  with  me  as  you  please,  but  I  had  rather  stay 


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in  the  penitentiary  in  North  Carolina  than  live  anywhere 
else/7  (Laughter.) 

We  welcome  you  because  we  are  engaged  in  great 
educational  enterprises  and  need  your  counsel  and  your 
assistance.  I  am  persuaded  that  there  is  no  more  signifi- 
cant educational  movement  now  going  on  than  the  present 
high-school  movement  in  the  South.  We  are  also  doing 
a  great  work  in  strengthening  our  colleges.  I  will  not 
say  in  building  colleges,  for  we  have  reached  the  conclu- 
sion that  we  have  colleges  enough.  In  fact,  some  of  us 
have  felt  very  much  like  the  old  preacher  who  had  carried 
on  a  revival  in  a  church  for  some  weeks.  When  asked  as 
to  results,  he  said  he  had  mighty  good  results. 

"How  many  accessions  ?" 

" No  accessions,  but  we  got  rid  of  five  fellows.' '  (Laugh- 
ter.) 

If  our  educational  revival  in  the  realm  of  higher 
education  is  even  lessening  the  number  of  colleges,  we 
may  not  grieve.  We  also  recognize  that  some  institu- 
tions in  the  South  must  be  placed  on  a  permanent  basis 
with  high  standards  and  must  measure  up  to  the  ideals 
so  nobly  expressed  for  us  in  the  inaugural  address  today. 
(Applause.) 

In  calling  on  our  distinguished  guests,  by  common 
consent  we  turn  to  the  representative  of  that  institution 
whose  primacy  is  universally  acknowledged  among  us. 
Harvard  College  was  established  in  pioneer  days  and  in 
a  village  community.  Born  in  primitive  surroundings,  it 
bore  testimony  even  in  its  birth  to  the  greatness  of  the 
ideal — to  the  supremacy  of  the  spirit  over  the  material. 
From  that  day  to  this,  it  has  preserved  the  glorious  tradi- 
tions of  the  higher  life.  It  has  been  the  teacher  of  us  all. 
It  has  furnished  arguments  for  or  against  every  line  of 
educational  policy  adopted  or  rejected  in  this  country. 
It  has  been  an  institution  of  great  changes,  it  has  been 
and  is  the  home  of  freedom  and  of  light.  (Applause.) 


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It  is,  therefore,  with  peculiar  pleasure  and  also  with 
a  due  sense  of  the  honor  involved  that  I  introduce  Presi- 
dent A.  Lawrence  Lowell,  of  Harvard  University.  (Loud 
applause.) 


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PRESIDENT  ABBOTT  LAWRENCE  LOWELL 

Chancellor  Kirkland,  Fellow  Delegates,  and  Members  of  the 
Faculty  of  Trinity  College: 

I  am  sorry  that  the  new  President  should  have  begun 
his  administration  so  soon  with  a  second  blunder.  I  am 
told  that  there  are  turkeys  to  be  carved  and  that  I  am  a 
turkey  stuffed  with  chestnuts.  (Laughter.)  We  heard 
a  great  deal  this  morning  of  congratulation  to  President 
Few  on  his  inauguration,  but  after  hearing  his  inaugural 
address  any  man  would  have  felt  like  congratulating  the 
College.  (Applause.)  I  feel  still  more  like  congratulating 
him  on  the  opportunity  that  lies  before  him.  He  has 
charge  of  the  doors  that  stand  at  the  threshold  of  life,  and 
it  is  for  him  to  open  and  shut  those  doors  and  direct  the 
course  of  the  young  men  who  are  passing  through. 

Our  educational  institutions  in  this  country  cover  many 
fields.  It  is  well  that  they  do  so.  They  are  trying  to  do 
many  things  that  must  be  done.  We  have  professional 
schools  of  law,  medicine,  engineering,  forestry,  and  every 
kind  of  thing  that  we  can  think  of.  That  is  the  largest 
and  most  rapid  development  of  the  day,  but  there  is  some- 
thing else  besides;  there  is  the  college — the  old-fashioned 
college  which  does  not  make  men  specialists,  but  which  makes 
men  citizens.  (Applause.)  I  happen  to  have  the  privi- 
lege of  being  at  the  head  of  a  university  which  has  several 
professional  schools,  but  has  not  for  one  moment  swerved 
from  the  task  of  the  college  that  breeds  men,  and  I  hope 
never  for  one  moment  will  swerve  from  it. 

You  [President  Few]  said  today  that  the  object  of  a 
college  was  to  teach  efficiency,  and  I  think  you  are  per- 

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fectly  right.  There  is  another  object  which  you  touched 
on  which  seems  to  me  to  be  greater  still,  and  that  is  the 
"cure  of  souls."  You  know  well  that  souls  are  not  cured 
by  a  recipe  like  fish  on  the  coast  that  I  come  from.  The 
cure  of  souls  is  the  greatest  task  that  any  man  can  set  him- 
self to  do,  and  there  is  no  place  in  the  country  where  it 
can  be  done  with  the  same  lasting  and  permanent  effect 
as  in  the  college.  You  will,  I  know  from  your  inaugural, 
doit. 

Character  is  largely  a  matter  of  personal  influence,  and 
I  feel  sure  you  will  get  into  close  touch  with,  and  live  the 
life  of,  your  students  just  as  much  as  you  possibly  can 
until  they  feel  that  you  are  in  the  fullest  sympathy  with 
their  thoughts  and  lives,  because  it  is  only  in  that  way 
that  the  student  can  be  brought  to  take  a  high  moral  view 
of  things.  You  cannot,  in  this  twentieth  century,  drive 
the  students  by  regulation,  but  you  can  lead  them  through 
fire  and  water  anywhere  you  chose  to  lead  them.  (Applause.) 
You  cannot  prescribe  by  regulations  what  they  shall  do. 
The  thing  a  young  man  really  wants  is  not  self-indulgence; 
is  not  pleasure.  It  is  to  sacrifice  himself  for  something 
worth  the  sacrifice,  and  that  is  one  reason  why  athletic 
contests  of  the  present  day  have  such  a  hold  on  young  men. 
They  believe  they  can  bring  glory  to  the  institution  to 
which  they  belong,  and  they  desire  above  everything  to 
find  means  by  which  they  can  satisfy  that  craving.  Sup- 
pose you  should  turn  to  young  men  and  say:  "There  is  a 
war  going  on,  and  there  are  two  regiments  to  be  enlisted, 
one  to  go  to  Fortress  Monroe  and  live  in  luxury,  and  the 
other  to  go  to  the  front  and  see  service  until  its  muscles 
ache,  and  the  men  are  killed  and  suffer  grievous  wounds. 
In  which  regiment  will  you  volunteer  ?"  Not  a  single  one 
would  volunteer  in  the  first,  but  every  man  would  hold  up 
his  hand  for  the  second.  (Applause.)  What  we  want  to 
impress  upon  our  young  men  is  that  scholarship  is  worthy 
of  sacrifice.  I  don't  mean  they  are  to  be  among  the  great 


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scholars  of  the  world — that  is  given  to  few;  I  refer  to  the 
training  of  their  minds  so  that  they  can  think  straight  and 
be  worthy  citizens.  We  want  them  to  feel  that  this  is  a 
thing  worth  more  than  success  on  the  ball-fields.  The 
way  to  lead  them  is  not  to  repress  the  things  that  they  want 
to  do,  but  to  show  them  greater  things. 

But  there  is  another  point:  colleges  should  make  not 
only  citizens,  but  citizens  of  the  nation.  One  of  the 
things  that  we  wish  to  avoid  above  all  things  is  localness 
in  the  college.  All  the  colleges  in  this  country  are  a  fra- 
ternity, which  knows  no  place,  and  which  knows  no  differ- 
ences to  be  compared  in  importance  with  the  ties  that  bind 
together.  At  every  college  to  which  I  have  ever  been 
I  have  felt  at  home.  I  have  never  gone  to  any  college 
that  I  did  not  feel  the  spirit  of  unity  among  all  the  educa- 
tional bodies  of  the  land.  No  doubt  politics  tends  to  unite 
men  from  every  section  of  the  country,  but  there  is  nothing 
that  does  it  in  the  ways  that  education  does.  There  is  no 
place  where  you  feel  the  absolute  unity  of  interest  in 
national  life  so  strongly  as  you  do  in  our  great  educational 
institutions;  and  we  must  make  our  young  men  see  that 
all  activities  of  intellectual  life,  although  apparently 
diverse,  converge  in  fact  at  last  in  the  national  interest 
of  our  country.  (Long  applause.) 

THE  TOASTMASTER 

College  men  throughout  the  whole  country  have  been 
looking  with  the  greatest  possible  interest  to  the  issues 
of  the  election  of  last  Tuesday  in  the  state  of  New  Jersey. 
They  have  felt  almost  a  personal  concern  in  this  matter. 
That  state  has  called  to  the  leadership  of  one  of  the  great 
parties  a  man  whose  life  has  been  given  to  the  study  of 
statecraft  and  who  gives  promise  of  making  a  national 
leader  for  the  Democratic  party.  I  think,  therefore, 
that  college  men  everywhere  have  rejoiced  exceedingly  in 


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the  election  of  President  Woodrow  Wilson  as  Governor  of 
New  Jersey.     (Applause.) 

But  a  President  isn't  everything  to  a  college.  (Laugh- 
ter.) Presidents  are  made;  great  deans  are  born.  I  intro- 
duce, therefore,  with  special  pleasure,  Dean  Andrew  F.  West, 
of  Princeton,  recognized  by  all  Princeton  men  and  college 
men  as  the  great  original  of  the  college  song,  "For  he's  a 
jolly  good  fellow."  (Applause.) 


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DEAN  ANDREW  FLEMING  WEST 

It  is  with  no  small  degree  of  diffidence  that  I  venture  to 
add  a  word  or  two,  gentlemen,  which  I  trust  will  not  con- 
tribute to  cast  a  gloom  on  this  occasion.  All  Princeton 
men  will  appreciate  the  great  compliment  which  you  have 
done  our  distinguished  President  on  account  of  his  political 
success  of  yesterday.  It  is  a  tradition  of  Princeton  that 
her  sons  should  serve  in  public  life. 

But  after  all,  I  imagine  you  are  not  here  for  politics 
or  even  for  religion.  (Laughter.)  And  so  it  occurs  to  me 
to  return  to  that  famous  dictum  of  John  Stuart  Mill,  that 
the  two  most  important  concerns  of  human  life  are  the 
ones  upon  which  men  seem  to  be  the  most  divided:  the 
question  of  politics  and  the  question  of  religion.  To  these 
two  great  concerns  it  seems  to  me  we  might  be  disposed  to 
add  a  third,  education.  And  I  hope  the  differences  there 
are  not  so  radical.  And  here  let  me  say  with  the  utmost 
sincerity  that  no  business  career,  no  political  service, 
nothing  else  in  this  life  seems  to  me  more  interesting,  more 
noble,  and  more  serviceable  than  the  career  of  the  educa- 
tor, with  the  one  exception,  and  the  only  exception,  that 
of  the  Christian  ministry.  It  does  seem  to  me  that  a  man 
who  is  an  educator,  though  I  hate  to  use  that  technical 
word,  is  an  artist,  superior  even  to  the  great  painter  or  the 
great  architect:  he  is  dealing  with  more  difficult  material. 
He  is  attempting  to  produce  or  develop  greater  things  in 
the  human  spirit,  to  lead  it  to  intellectual  and  moral  free- 
dom. And  when  we  remember  that  the  teachers  of  the 
nation  are  not  ordinarily  receiving  pecuniary  rewards  of 
an  excessive  amount  (laughter),  is  it  not  at  least  gratifying 


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to  think  that  they  are  members  of  a  most  worthy  profes- 
sion, that  they  are  engaged  in  becoming  artists,  makers, 
fashioners  of  men  ?  They  are  not  making  specialists,  they 
are  not  making  trained  scholars;  they  are  engaged  in  the 
supreme  artistic  effort  of  turning  boys  into  men.  Can 
there  be  a  more  arduous  and  splendid  work  than  that  ? 

It  was  with  much  satisfaction  that  I  listened  to  the 
words  of  President  Few  this  morning,  with  high  appre- 
ciation of  what  he  said  and  with  deep  sympathy.  And 
if  I  may  refer  to  President  LowelPs  remarks,  may  I  go  so 
far  as  to  say  that,  while  agreeing  with  practically  all  he 
said,  I  do  not  agree  with  his  remark  that  you  cannot  drive 
young  men.  I  think  you  can  drive  young  men  with  ease 
and  certainty  in  one  direction — to  the  devil.  (Laughter.) 
That  is  my  exception,  to  which  I  am  sure  the  distinguished 
President  will  not  except.  I  have  also  listened  to  what 
Chancellor  Kirkland  has  said  and  have  no  sympathy  at 
all  with  what  he  said  about  me.  (Laughter.)  Well  then, 
before  closing  these  desultory  remarks  and  disappearing 
as  gracefully  as  I  can  (laughter),  let  me  say  just  a  word 
about  the  American  college. 

It  has  a  glorious  historical  record;  it  has  two  foes.  One 
is  the  self-seeking  commercial  spirit  of  the  country  and  the 
other  is  the  common  weaknesses  of  young  men.  The 
first  will  be  its  eternal  foe  unless  the  college  can  so  enlighten 
the  commercial  spirit  of  the  country  that  it  becomes  instilled 
with  something  higher  than  the  desire  of  mere  "what  pays" 
as  the  end  of  life.  I  believe  the  colleges  can  be  made  so 
interesting  that  the  wealth  of  this  country  will  be  a  friend, 
a  helper,  a  maker  of  our  higher  spiritual  development. 
On  the  other  side,  the  side  of  tendency  toward  self-indul- 
gence, this  weakness  both  in  young  men  and  old  men  and 
all  men  is  to  be  overcome  in  another  way. 

I  don't  know  how  it  seems  to  you,  gentlemen,  but  to 
my  mind,  the  most  regular  verb  in  the  whole  grammar  of 
knowledge  is  conjugated  thus : 


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I  don't  like  to  work, 

You  don't  like  to  work, 

He  don't  like  to  work, 

We  don't  like  to  work, 

You  don't  like  to  work, 

They  don't  like  to  work.     (Laughter.) 

It  isn't  doing  the  thing  because  it  is  hard,  it  isn't  doing 
the  thing  because  it  is  unpleasant  that  has  any  virtue; 
but  I  believe  it  is  in  doing  the  thing  we  somehow  know  we 
ought  to  do  at  the  time  we  don't  want  to  do  it  that  the 
highest  power  in  any  man  is  wakened  and  developed. 
There  is  a  gymnastics  of  the  mind,  an  intellectual  athletics, 
and  every  time  these  mind-muscles  are  worked  there  is  a 
new  response  and  a  new  power.  The  greatest  power  comes 
from  overcoming  difficulties  that  ought  to  be  overcome — 
these  and  no  others. 

The  enthusiasm  which  President  Lowell  has  said,  and 
justly  said,  would  show  itself  in  college  students  who  were 
given  their  choice  between  his  two  imagined  regiments — 
the  enthusiasm  which  we  see  in  athletics — is  the  sort  of 
power  that  is  to  be  used  to  overcome  self-indulgence.  If 
we  can  once  waken  in  young  men  the  desire  to  overcome, 
to  win  in  the  athletics  of  the  mind;  if  we  can  once  turn 
into  the  field  of  study  and  self-discipline  the  enthusiasm 
which  we  find  on  every  athletic  field,  the  problem  is  solved, 
and  the  student  will  be  on  his  way  to  the  highest  achievement. 
And  when  he  succeeds  in  overcoming  and  mastering  him- 
self, he  owns  himself  and  will  surely  turn,  day  by  day, 
effort  by  effort,  going  "from  strength  to  strength"  till  he 
attains  the  true  stature  of  his  full  manhood.  (Applause.) 


THE  TOASTMASTER 

We  have  with  us  today,  gentlemen,  a  representative 
of  the  educational  department  of  our  national  government. 
In  every  gathering  of  college  men,  there  is  a  place  at  our 


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board  for  this  representative.  We  look  to  the  National 
Department  of  Education  for  assistance  in  many  ways, 
and  it  is  our  duty  to  assist  in  building  up  this  national 
department — in  making  it  greater  and  more  efficient, 
in  securing  larger  resources  for  the  splendid  tasks  that 
have  been  outlined  for  it.  I  am  sure  that  we  have  always 
the  sympathy  and  support  of  the  United  States  Com- 
missioner of  Education,  and  I  now  have  the  pleasure  of 
introducing  the  Honorable  Elmer  E.  Brown.  (Applause.) 


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THE  HONORABLE  ELMER  ELLSWORTH  BROWN 


I  have  been  unusually  moved  by  this  gathering.  In 
the  past  few  years  it  has  been  my  privilege  to  be  at  a  num- 
ber of  university  celebrations — the  inauguration  of  new 
presidents  and  other  occasions  of  similar  character.  I 
see  about  me  other  well-seasoned  attendants  upon  such 
gatherings.  I  think  they  would  all  agree  with  me  that 
we  have  been  singularly  moved  by  the  impressive  char- 
acter of  this  occasion.  (Applause). 

I  want  to  congratulate  you  at  Trinity  College  upon 
your  success  in  making  the  inauguration  of  your  new 
president  an  event  of  so  large  significance.  We  have,  all 
of  us,  I  am  sure,  listened  with  unusual  pleasure  to  the 
inaugural  address  that  we  have  heard  today — an  address 
characterized  by  extraordinary  frankness  and  insight. 
I  congratulate  the  new  President  of  this  institution  upon 
having  made  so  notable  a  beginning.  (Applause.)  I  have 
listened,  as  have  others,  with  unusual  interest  again,  to 
the  words  of  the  President  of  Harvard  University,  and 
with  the  sense  that  has  been  growing  upon  me  for  the  past 
year,  and  I  think  has  been  growing  upon  others,  that  in 
its  new  president  Harvard  is  making  a  strong  claim,  not 
only  to  scholastic  leadership,  but  also  to  moral  leadership 
as  well  in  our  affairs  of  the  higher  education.  It  is  good 
to  hear  such  words  as  those  which  we  have  heard  from 
President  Lowell  this  afternoon.  So,  gentlemen,  it  seems 
to  me  that  the  occasion  is  a  notable  one,  not  only  in  the 
history  of  your  institution,  but  in  the  history  of  education 
in  the  South  and  in  the  whole  country  as  well.  We  are, 
all  of  us,  interested  in  this  occasion,  in  that  it  signalizes 


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another  step  in  the  development  of  that  higher  education 
which  makes  for  our  national  excellence  and  our  national 
success,  in  the  best  use  of  the  word  "success." 

I  have  been  talking  with  your  Governor  here,  trying  to 
persuade  him  that  I  am  correct  in  my  interpretation  that 
the  South  is  today  the  center  of  the  liveliest  and  most 
effective  federalism  that  we  have  in  this  country.  I  notice 
that  the  Governor  does  not  quite  accept  that  view,  but, 
when  I  reflect,  it  seems  to  me  that  he  has  said  the  same 
thing  in  other  words,  and  in  words  much  better  than  mine. 
We  are  all  certainly  interested  in  that  kind  of  federalism 
or  nationalism  or  patriotism,  whatever  it  may  be  called, 
which  is  represented  by  the  common  spirit  of  education. 
I  know  of  no  place  in  the  United  States  where  I  am  more 
impressed  with  the  fact  that  education  is  pushing  to  the 
front  as  the  dominant  interest  of  the  several  states  than 
I  am  right  here  in  the  South.  It  is  exhilarating  to  me  to 
come  into  the  South,  because  of  the  way  this  section  is 
driving  educational  interests  to  the  front — the  interests 
upon  which  the  hopes  of  the  commonwealth  in  a  peculiar 
way  and  measure  depend.  Now,  whether  we  agree  in 
calling  the  thing  federalism  or  nationalism — old  nationalism 
or  new  nationalism  (laughter  and  applause) — whether  we 
agree  or  not  in  what  we  call  it,  I  think  we  realize  this,  that 
there  are  different  ways  of  achieving  the  kind  of  unity  that 
is  best  for  our  American  life.  At  some  points  it  is  to  be 
achieved  by  action  of  the  Federal  Government;  at  some 
points  it  is  to  be  achieved  by  that  new  thing  that  we  have 
discovered  in  recent  years,  the  deliberate  co-operation  of 
the  several  states.  That  is  one  of  the  most  significant 
things,  if  I  am  not  mistaken,  in  the  recent  history  of  our 
national  affairs.  Again,  we  are  interested  in  seeing  unity 
achieved  by  a  common,  concerted  action,  springing  from 
the  common  interest  of  those  who  are  most  deeply  con- 
cerned with  the  things  that  make  for  the  spiritual  life  of 
the  nation.  We  have  that  interest  represented  in  such  a 


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gathering  as  this.  As  we  go  on,  we  shall  come  to  a  reali- 
zation of  the  fact  that  upon  our  colleges  rest,  not  only  the 
responsibility  that  each  bears  toward  its  immediate  con- 
stituency, the  responsibility  for  teaching  its  matriculated 
students,  but  also  the  additional  responsibility  of  doing 
its  part  as  a  member  of  that  larger  scholastic  body,  our 
united  colleges,  which  share  among  them  a  large  respon- 
sibility for  our  American  civilization.  This  occasion  brings 
us  together  and  makes  us  feel  that  we  are  one  in  that  we 
have  a  part  in  that  great,  common  work.  The  sense  of 
such  a  responsibility  is  indeed  good  for  us  all. 

Before  I  sit  down  may  I  say  just  one  word  with  refer- 
ence to  one  of  the  questions  that  have  been  touched  upon 
here  from  time  to  time — the  question  as  to  the  function 
of  the  college  as  the  promoter  of  liberal  education,  together 
with  the  question  as  to  that  other  kind  of  education  which 
may  be  called  technical  or  special.  As  I  see  it,  here  is  one 
of  the  most  vital  problems  of  our  education  at  this  present 
time.  It  is  not  a  problem  of  special  education,  nor  is  it 
a  problem  of  general  education,  but  it  is  the  problem  of 
getting  these  two  into  right  relations  with  each  other. 
(Applause.)  As  I  understand  it,  a  liberally  educated  man 
is  one  who  has  learned  so  thoroughly  how  all  human  inter- 
ests hang  together  that  he  can  thereafter  see  his  own 
interests  only  as  related  to  general  and  permanent  human 
interests.  Over  against  this  is  technical  education.  It  is 
an  education  from  which  a  man  learns  to  do  something 
which  most  men  cannot  do,  which,  nevertheless,  is  needed 
by  his  fellow-men  for  the  advancement  of  general  and 
permanent  human  interests.  If  we,  in  our  colleges  and 
universities,  can  get  beyond  the  point  where  we  see  these 
things  as  opposed  to  each  other  and  arrive  at  a  point  where 
we  shall  see  them  as  they  are  related  to  each  other,  one  of 
the  great  problems  of  American  education  today  will  be 
solved.  If  we  shall  see  these  things  in  their  relations  one 
to  the  other  and  shall  work  out  those  relations  in  practical 


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affairs  and  in  practical  education,  then  I  think  we  of  this 
generation  shall  not  have  lived  in  vain.     (Long  applause.) 

THE  TOASTMASTER 

One  of  the  most  inspiring  incidents  of  our  American 
history  has  been  the  movement  resulting  in  the  settlement 
of  the  Northwest.  For  a  century  you  may  track  this 
movement  as  the  population  from  the  eastern  coast  has 
moved  westward,  building  up  one  great  commonwealth 
after  another  and  establishing  American  citizenship  in 
one  great  stronghold  after  another.  And  it  is  very  inter- 
esting and  very  striking  that,  hand  in  hand  with  all  these 
enterprises  and  with  the  development  of  new  common- 
wealths, has  gone  the  establishment  of  institutions  of  learn- 
ing— colleges  and  universities.  In  this  northwest  terri- 
tory some  new  forms  of  educational  effort  command  our 
attention.  Great  universities  have  brought  to  us  new 
lessons  in  education  and  given  us  new  illustrations  of 
method.  We  are  amazed  at  the  progress  these  institu- 
tions have  made  for  the  past  twenty-five  years;  at  the 
large  number  of  young  men  and  young  women  that  have 
crowded  their  halls  and  the  great  equipment  and  resources 
provided  by  the  states  themselves.  We  have  listened 
with  marked  attention  to  the  representatives  of  these 
institutions  as  they  have  told  us  of  the  part  that  these 
universities  are  playing  in  the  service  of  their  respective 
states.  In  this  they  have  set  us  all  a  noble  example. 

I  take  great  pleasure  in  introducing  the  representative 
of  one  of  the  greatest  of  these  universities,  Dean  John 
F.  Downey,  of  the  University  of  Minnesota. 


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DEAN  JOHN  F.  DOWNEY 

I  bring  you  greetings  from  an  institution  in  what  we 
are  wont  to  call  "The  Great  Northwest."  In  one  way  it 
is  quite  fitting  that  I  should  be  the  bearer  of  these  greetings. 
I  have  seen  the  institution  grow  from  infancy  to  vigorous 
manhood — I  am  serving  my  thirty-first  year  with  it — and 
while  we  have  a  faculty  of  more  than  three  hundred  and 
fifty  people,  only  four  of  them  were  connected  with  it 
when  I  joined  it.  By  this  long  service  I  am  pretty  closely 
identified  with  the  institution  and  can  fittingly  be  the 
bearer  of  its  greetings  to  you.  In  another  way  I  am  not  so 
fitting  a  bearer.  In  one  respect,  to  say  nothing  of  many 
other  respects,  my  early  education  was  neglected  and,  as 
a  result,  I  have  not  contributed  anything  to  the  wealth  of 
Durham.  While,  by  the  sign-boards  all  over  the  country, 
I  am  familiar  with  "Bull  Durham,"  "Duke's  Mixture," 
and  other  brands  of  Durham  output,  I  have  never  bought 
any  of  them  and,  consequently,  have  not  contributed  to 
this  source  of  your  city's  prosperity.  I  can  make  amends 
only  by  giving  assurance  that  if,  after  all  these  years  of 
neglected  opportunity,  I  take  up  the  habit  in  which  so 
many  seem  to  find  solace  and  comfort  and  quiet  joy,  I 
shall  use  none  but  Durham  brands.  In  any  case,  I  shall 
continue  to  admire  that  statuesque  Durham  bull  on  the 
signboards  that  heralds  to  all  the  world  "Bull  Durham." 
With  noble  poise  and  head  erect,  his  attitude  is  truly 
heroic,  like  that  of  Nelson  on  the  shaft  in  Trafalgar  Square 
or  the  statue  of  Admiral  Blake  in  his  native  town  in  Devon- 
shire. We  have  some  fine  Durham  bulls  at  the  farm  of 
the  College  of  Agriculture  connected  with  the  University. 


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Like  myself  they  do  not  use  tobacco  in  any  form;  but 
they  have  never  entered  any  formal  protest  against  adver- 
tising a  good  brand  of  it  by  one  of  their  kind.  If,  to  pro- 
tect them  from  the  rigors  of  our  northern  climate,  it  ever 
becomes  necessary  to  put  clothing  on  these  bulls,  I  promise 
to  see  to  it  that  they  shall  be  clothed  in  overalls  made  of 
denim  from  the  Erwin  Mills  at  Durham.  However,  a 
delegate  is  selected  with  reference  to  his  sympathy  with 
the  spirit  and  work  of  the  institution  to  which  he  goes 
rather  than  to  his  being  a  connoisseur  in  the  products  of 
the  chief  industry  of  the  city  in  which  it  may  be  located. 
Judging  from  what  I  knew  of  your  institution  before  coming 
here,  from  the  subjects  offered  in  your  curriculum,  and 
from  what  I  have  seen  and  heard  since  coming,  I  find 
myself  in  complete  sympathy  with  your  work  and  your 
ideals. 

I  am  gratified  to  find  that  the  commercial  or  vocational 
mania  has  not  seized  you  with  the  grip  which  it  has  laid 
on  many  institutions;  that  you  believe  in  the  pursuit  of 
certain  subjects  for  their  own  sakes — for  their  cultural  and 
disciplinary  value,  without  reference  to  their  direct  voca- 
tional applications;  that  whatever  is  to  be  one's  vocation, 
if  he  have  a  good  mind  and  any  scholastic  instincts,  a  broad, 
liberal  education  is  quite  worth  while,  not  only  as  a  founda- 
tion for  professional  or  vocational  training,  but  for  broad- 
ening one's  horizon,  giving  him  high  and  worthy  views  of 
life  and  multiplying  his  sources  of  happiness;  in  short, 
that  you  believe  in  education  as  distinct  from  vocation. 

Far  be  it  from  me  to  decry,  in  these  days  of  specialization, 
most  thorough  training  for  a  comparatively  narrow  field  of 
activity.  Trained  specialists  are  those  who  achieve  great 
successes.  But  that  training  is  more  readily  secured  and 
is  more  effective  when  preceded  by  a  broad,  general  edu- 
cation, such  as  is  afforded  by  your  curriculum.  If  one  has 
sufficiently  tested  his  powers  and  learned  his  tastes  to 
enable  him  to  know,  while  pursuing  this  general  course, 


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what  his  occupation  is  to  be,  it  is  well  for  him  to  elect  such 
offered  subjects  as  have  a  direct  bearing  upon,  and  give 
preparation  for,  that  occupation:  for  example,  mathe- 
matics, mechanics,  and  drawing  for  engineering  or  archi- 
tecture; chemistry,  animal  biology,  anatomy,  and  physiol- 
ogy for  medicine;  and  similarly  for  other  professions,  but 
not  to  the  exclusion  of  time-honored  and  time-tested  subjects 
that  do  not  have  a  direct  bearing  upon  the  chosen  pro- 
fession. 

The  trend  for  the  last  few  years  has  been  decidedly  the 
other  way.  In  too  many  cases,  boys,  while  still  in  the 
high  school  or  academy,  who  know  not  yet  their  capacities 
or  their  adaptabilities,  are  expected  to  decide  what  their 
vocation  is  to  be  and  to  select  their  course  accordingly; 
and  then,  with  the  minimum  of  preparation  permitted, 
enter  upon  their  technical  course.  As  a  result  they  enter 
into  practical  life  narrow,  lop-sided,  half-educated,  few 
of  them  rising  to  distinction  and  all  of  them  getting  less 
out  of  life  and  contributing  less  to  it  than  they  would  had 
they  pursued  a  broader  and  more  liberalizing  course.  The 
idea  that  one  needs  to  know  little  outside  of  his  profession 
or  business  is  a  very  unworthy  one.  The  man  is  not  made 
for  the  vocation,  but  the  vocation  for  the  man.  The  man 
is  primary;  the  vocation,  secondary.  The  vocation  should 
not  be  made  an  end,  but  a  means  to  an  end;  and  we  should 
impress  upon  our  youth  that  one  is  to  be  educated,  not 
because  he  is  to  plead  at  the  bar  or  practice  medicine  or 
preach  sermons  or  build  bridges,  but  because  he  is  a  man- 
to  be  educated  into  a  nobler  and  more  effective  manhood. 

Of  course  this  tendency  to  omit  the  subjects  which  we 
are  accustomed  to  regard  as  constituting  a  liberal  educa- 
tion and  taking  the  shortest  cut  to  a  profession  or  other 
vocation  comes  largely  from  the  spirit  of  what  we  call  a 
commercial  age,  by  which  we  mean  a  money-getting  age, 
with  its  doctrine  that,  whatever  else  suffers,  one  must 
prepare  himself  to  be  a  money-getter.  The  doctrine  that 


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every  man  should  be  a  money-getter  is  good  doctrine;  but 
it  need  not  be  at  the  expense  of  those  things  that  are  of 
even  more  value  than  money. 

Those  who  come  to  us  to  receive  such  training  as  will 
increase  their  money-getting  power  need  not  be  discour- 
aged by  us;  but  they  should  be  encouraged  to  aspire  also 
after  those  things  which  money  cannot  buy — knowledge, 
discipline,  culture,  character.  The  mind  of  the  honest 
German  who  was  asked  why  he  bought  more  land  moved  in 
a  very  small  circle:  said  he,  "I  bought  more  land  so  I  could 
raise  more  wheat."  "Why  do  you  want  to  raise  more 
wheat ?"  "So  I  can  get  more  money."  "Why  do  you 
want  to  get  more  money?"  "So  I  can  buy  more  land." 
"Why  do  you  want  to  buy  more  land?"  "So  I  can  raise 
more  wheat."  "Why  do  you  want  to  raise  more  wheat  ?" 
"So  I  can  get  more  money,"  and  so  on  in  an  endless  circuit, 
always  coming  round  to  more  money. 

When  there  is  a  wrong  trend  on  the  part  of  the  public  in 
matters  educational,  it  is  clearly  the  duty  of  professional 
educators,  like  ourselves,  to  do  what  we  can  in  the  way 
of  counteracting  it.  Many  do;  but  many  others,  in  case 
of  the  particular  trend  of  which  I  am  speaking,  help  it  on 
all  they  can — some  of  them  because  they  think  a  young 
man's  time  too  valuable  to  be  wasted  upon  what  they  con- 
sider as  non-essentials,  but  more  of  them  because  they  like 
to  be  "on  the  band-wagon,"  as  we  say  in  the  slang  phrase 
of  politics,  and  like  to  be  regarded  as  progressive.  They 
wait  until  they  see  which  way  the  procession  is  going.  Look 
at  that  procession  a  little  later.  Who  are  those  fellows  at 
its  head  shouting  so  loudly  and  waving  their  banners  so 
furiously  ?  They  are  these  same  so-called  educators,  who 
wish  to  be  regarded  as  progressives.  We  have  a  great 
deal  of  that  to  contend  with  in  the  West.  It  is  bad  enough 
that  students,  influenced  by  the  spirit  of  the  time,  avoid, 
or  take  under  protest,  standard  educational  subjects  with 
the  remark  that  these  subjects  will  be  of  no  use  to  them; 


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but  it  is  worse  that  professional  educators,  both  in  college 
and  secondary  school,  keep  pushing  to  replace  these  subjects 
with  what  they  call  "practical  subjects,"  by  which  they 
mean  vocational  subjects.  True,  some  of  these  subjects 
have  considerable  educational  value;  but  more  of  them 
have  little  or  none.  I  believe  in  trade-schools  for  those 
who  wish  to  learn  a  trade  and  technical  schools  for  the  vari- 
ous professions;  but  education  is  one  thing  and  a  trade 
or  profession  is  quite  another,  and  a  boy  ought  not  to  be 
deluded  into  the  thought  that,  because  he  is  learning  to 
file  a  flat  surface  on  a  piece  of  iron  or  to  judge  the  meat- 
or  milk-value  of  a  cow,  that  he  is  acquiring  an  education. 
These  are  valuable  accomplishments  for  those  who  have 
occasion  to  use  them  and  may  be  turned  to  money  account; 
but  they  contribute  very  little  toward  a  liberal  education. 
I  am  glad  to  find  that  this  craze  has  not  struck  Trinity 
College  and  that  it  has  not  infected  the  minds  of  its  patrons. 
I  hope  you  will  continue  to  send  out  from  here  young  men 
and  young  women  with  the  knowledge  and  discipline  and 
culture  that  your  courses  are  capable  of  giving.  I  con- 
gratulate you  upon  having  inaugurated  today  a  President 
whose  administration  promises  much  for  Trinity  College. 
We,  too,  are  looking  for  a  president  to  administer  the  affairs 
of  our  university.  If  we  find  one  as  well  adapted  to  the 
place  as  President  Few  seems  to  be  to  Trinity,  we  shall 
count  ourselves  fortunate.  In  the  meantime  we  congratu- 
late ourselves  that  we  still  have  with  us  that  grand  and 
capable  man,  President  Cyrus  Northrop,  although  he 
resigned  a  year  and  a  half  ago  and  is  serving  only  until  a 
suitable  successor  is  found.  When  we  inaugurate  that 
successor,  we  shall  hope  that  a  delegate  from  Trinity  College 
will  bring  to  us  Trinity's  greetings  and  good  wishes. 


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THE  TOASTMASTER 

Dean  Downey  begs  me  to  announce  privately,  what  he 
felt  a  little  delicacy  in  saying  himself,  that  applicants  for 
the  presidency  of  the  University  of  Minnesota  may  file 
their  petitions  with  him  before  leaving. 

I  take  the  liberty  of  interrupting  the  regular  program 
at  this  moment  and  feel  that  I  am  voicing  the  sentiment 
of  all  the  delegates  present  when  I  insist  on  introducing 
at  this  time  His  Excellency,  the  Governor  of  North  Caro- 
lina. (Applause.) 


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GOVERNOR  WILLIAM  WALTON  KITCHIN 

I  am  really  very  greatly  astonished  at  this  call.  I  have 
been  sitting  here  where  I  could  see  the  list  of  those  who 
were  to  speak,  and  my  name  was  not  on  it.  To  my  sur- 
prise some  friend  has  sent  up  a  card,  requesting  Chan- 
cellor Kirkland  to  call  on  me.  It  was  against  his  wishes, 
and  it  is  against  mine.  (Laughter.)  Of  course  as  I  sat 
here  listening  to  those  eloquent  and  appropriate  remarks, 
things  have  passed  through  my  mind.  When  the  Chan- 
cellor himself  told  the  story  about  the  North  Carolinian 
who  would  rather  be  in  the  penitentiary  in  North  Carolina 
than  live  free  in  Texas,  I  thought  of  what  is  perhaps  a  better 
story  that  was  told  by  Senator  Taylor  in  New  York.  When 
Senator  Taylor  was  invited  to  make  a  speech  before  the 
Tennessee  Society  in  New  York  some  years  ago,  he  told 
them  he  was  worried  almost  to  death  in  trying  to  settle 
upon  something  to  discuss.  He  said  he  went  to  sleep  the 
night  before  and  dreamed  he  went  to  heaven.  He  got  on 
the  inside,  he  said,  and  an  angel  was  showing  him  around. 
He  saw  people  from  New  York,  Massachusetts,  North 
Carolina,  Texas,  and  other  states,  and  almost  every  friend 
he  had  ever  known  was  there,  except  those  from  Tennessee. 
He  said  he  kept  wondering,  "Where  are  the  friends  of  my 
youth  that  I  labored  with  during  the  War  and  afterward  ?" 
But  he  saw  not  one.  Finally  he  asked  his  guide  where  the 
good  men  from  Tennessee  were,  and  the  guide  told  him  that 
he  would  show  him  after  awhile.  So  he  kept  going  around 
from  one  place  to  another  along  the  golden  streets,  seeing 
his  friends  from  every  other  state,  and  his  heart  grew 
heavy,  and  he  was  never  so  sad  in  his  life — so  sad  that 


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after  he  woke  he  found  his  pillow  wet  with  tears.  After 
a  while  he  made  inquiry  again  about  his  friends  from  Ten- 
nessee, but  the  guide  only  answered  as  before.  Finally 
he  took  him  out  to  a  very  beautiful  public  square  where  he 
saw  thousands  of  Tennesseeans  with  chains  around  their 
ankles,  and  those  chains  fastened  to  stakes  in  the  ground. 
The  guard  noticed  that  he  was  sad  and  said,  "Taylor, 
that  is  the  only  way  we  can  keep  them  here;  otherwise  they 
would  all  go  right  back  to  Tennessee."  (Laughter.) 

It  is  but  fair  to  say,  however,  that  that  was  before  the 
recent  election  in  Tennessee.  (Laughter.) 

As  Dr.  West  was  speaking  about  education,  politics, 
and  religion,  and  asserting  that  politics  and  religion  are 
irreconcilable,  it  occurred  to  me  that  he  was  in  error;  that 
education,  properly  applied  for  a  sufficient  length  of  time, 
will  harmonize  the  people  in  politics  as  well  as  religion;  for, 
when  I  remember  how  the  oldest  university,  and  therefore 
the  greatest,  in  this  country  has  been  educating  the  people 
of  Massachusetts  for  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty 
years,  and  has  made  them  better  and  wiser  year  after 
year,  and  when  I  recall  how  that  great  university  in  New 
Jersey  has  been  educating  the  people  year  after  year,  and 
how  Trinity  College  here  in  North  Carolina  has  been  edu- 
cating them  and  making  them  better  and  wiser,  and  how 
all  these  states  are  now  harmonious  (long  applause) — when 
I  consider  all  this,  I  begin  to  think  that  Dr.  West  is  mis- 
taken, that  we  are  all  going  to  become  better  after  a  while. 
But  out  there  in  Tennessee  education  hasn't  done  its  work 
properly  yet.  (Laughter.)  There  is  still  work  to  be  done 
in  Tennessee,  and  we  shall  have  to  let  Trinity  and  Harvard 
and  Princeton  help  her  a  little  more  before  she  gets  right. 
My  friend  on  my  left  [Dr.  Elmer  E.  Brown]  spoke  of 
the  New  Nationalism.  He  thinks  we  haven't  many 
differences,  not  even  enough  to  talk  about  or  discuss;  but 
I  couldn't  help  thinking  that  in  the  only  place  where  new 
nationalism  has  been  tried  lately,  the  people  determined, 


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not  to  carry  out  the  doctrines,  but  to  throw  them  out,  as 
the  elections  in  New  York  amply  show. 

At  the  risk  of  being  a  little  personal  I  am  going  to  tell 
a  story  on  President  Lowell.  It  shows  how  accurate  a 
man  may  become,  how  painstaking,  how  careful  as  to  the 
smallest  details;  how  he  must  be  a  great  executive  before 
he  can  hope  to  be  the  head  of  any  of  the  great  institutions 
of  the  land.  I  understand  that  Dr.  Lowell  took  a  trip 
out  West  last  summer  and  that  he  got  his  brother,  who 
lives  in  the  West,  to  take  charge  of  his  home  and  keep  his 
household  in  order  during  his  absence.  They  say  that 
although  President  Lowell  before  leaving  wrote  out  a  pretty 
full  bill  of  instructions  for  him,  when  the  President  got  out 
to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  he  telegraphed  his  brother,  "I  forgot 
the  canary;  find  food  in  safe  and  please  feed."  When 
he  got  out  to  St.  Paul  he  received  this  telegram:  "The 
canary  is  again  hungry;  wire  instructions."  (Applause.) 
I  do  know  that  President  Lowell  keeps  his  household  in 
order  because  I  had  the  rare  pleasure  of  sharing  his  hos- 
pitality last  summer. 

I  feel,  gentlemen,  that  I  have  done  what  I  came  here  to 
do.  I  have  a  friend  who  sells  soda  fountains — I  won't  call 
his  name,  for  several  gentlemen  in  this  audience  know  him. 
He  had  been  loving  a  young  lady,  who  is  now  his  wife,  for 
many  years.  He  went  to  her  home  one  day  determined  to 
ask  her  father  for  her,  but,  luckily  for  him,  the  old  gentle- 
man was  absent.  So,  he  went  to  the  next  town  and  wrote 
him  a  letter,  in  which  he  acquainted  him  with  a  few  facts 
and  circumstances  that  he  already  knew,  and  asked  for  the 
girl.  Soon  afterward  he  got  a  letter  from  the  old  gentle- 
man, in  which  he  said  that  he  had  no  objection  on  earth 
to  him  as  a  man,  but  that  he  didn't  like  to  see  his  daughter 
get  married  at  all;  that  she  was  his  only  child,  that  he  had 
a  large  home,  and  that  he  would  consent  to  the  marriage 
upon  one  condition  only,  and  that  was,  that  after  the 
marriage  they  would  make  his  home  their  home.  The 


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young  man  went  to  the  telegraph  office  and  sent  this  tele- 
gram: "Letter  received.  Terms  accepted."  (Applause.) 
They  say  he  has  complied  with  the  terms  ever  since.  I 
feel  that  I,  too,  have  complied  with  the  terms  which  were 
tendered  to  me  in  the  invitation. 

I  can't  help  again  expressing  my  gratification  at  seeing 
here  so  many  prominent  educators  from  other  states.  The 
more  you  know  of  North  Carolina,  gentlemen,  the  better 
you  will  like  the  good  old  state,  and  we  welcome  you  from 
the  bottom  of  our  hearts.  This  has  been  a  great  day  for 
Trinity  College  and  for  the  entire  state.  The  best  wishes 
of  every  North  Carolinian  will  accompany  you  back  to 
your  homes.  The  rays  of  the  sun  never  kissed  a  fairer 
land;  the  plowman  never  turned  a  kindlier  sod;  Columbia 
never  knew  a  truer  love,  and  the  stranger  never  clasped  a 
friendlier  hand  than  Carolina's.  (Long  applause.) 

THE  TOASTMASTER 

It  will  be  agreed  by  all  that  the  toastmaster  made  no 
mistake  in  calling  on  His  Excellency  the  Governor,  even 
without  notice,  and  President  Lowell  and  I  are  wondering 
what  he  would  have  done  to  us  if  he  had  had  more  time. 
(Applause.) 

In  speaking  of  North  Carolina,  I  am  reminded  of  a  dis- 
tinguished politician  in  this  state  who  later  went  into 
political  life  in  New  York.  He  was  bragging  on  North 
Carolina — on  its  achievements  and  its  great  material 
development  and  its  resources,  its  cotton-mills,  tobacco- 
factories,  and  so  forth,  and  finally  said:  "If  I  could  only 
be  sure  that  I  could  come  back  a  hundred  years  from  now 
to  see  the  Old  North  State  and  what  it  has  done,  I  should 
die  happy."  His  friend  said,  "Don't  give  yourself  the 
least  trouble  about  that;  when  you  have  been  dead  a 
hundred  days,  you  will  be  glad  to  come  back  on  any  condi- 
tion." (Laughter  and  applause.) 


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It  is  not  a  far  cry  from  Minnesota  to  New  Haven.  The 
University  of  Minnesota  and  Old  Yale  have  been  closely 
connected  during  many  years  of  history.  If  Harvard  was 
founded  as  a  reproduction  in  some  sense  of  Oxford  and 
Cambridge  on  this  new  soil,  Yale  was  started  as  an  Ameri- 
can institution.  Its  first  faculty  were  largely  trained  at 
Harvard.  It  had  been  from  the  beginning,  in  some  respects, 
a  typical  American  institution,  representing  American  life, 
American  energy,  American  aspirations,  American  vigor, 
and,  in  some  respects,  American  self-satisfaction.  You 
always  know  a  Yale  man  wherever  you  meet  him.  A 
man  was  attending  a  great  football  game  a  few  years  ago 
when  those  games  were  played  in  New  York.  It  was  a 
game  between  Yale  and  Princeton.  A  stranger  sitting  by 
him  was  very  enthusiastic  over  the  game,  and  the  friend 
who  was  rather  sedate  and  not  very  well  acquainted  with 
athletic  history  and  detail,  said  to  him,  "You  are  an 
alumnus  of  Yale?"  The  fellow  stopped  his  yelling  a 
minute  and  said:  "It  doesn't  take  a  Sherlock  Holmes  to 
find  that  out." 

I  take  great  pleasure  in  introducing  Dean  Jones,  as  a 
representative  of  Yale  University.  (Applause.) 


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DEAN  FREDERICK  SHEETZ  JONES 

It  is  an  ill  wind  that  blows  nobody  good.  While  Yale 
regrets  that  President  Hadley's  absence  abroad  on  national 
business  prevents  his  being  here  to  represent  the  College 
at  your  gathering  today,  I  may  be  pardoned  if  I  indulge 
in  secret  satisfaction  that  it  has  resulted  in  my  being  per- 
mitted to  take  part  in  the  festivities  of  this  occasion.  Nor 
is  it  altogether  illogical  that  I  should  be  here  as  a  delegate, 
for  while  I  have  lived  most  of  my  life  in  the  far  North  I  am 
a  southerner  (by  marriage),  and  I  was  born  in  that  twilight 
zone  between  North  and  South  which  makes  me,  not 
exactly  a  son  of  either,  but  loyal  to  both,  and  the  blood 
of  southern  ancestors  tingled  in  my  veins  this  afternoon 
as  I  heard  the  well-known  strains  of  "Dixie." 

It  is  with  peculiar  sympathy,  then,  that  I  bring  to  you 
the  greetings  of  Yale  on  this  occasion.  A  good  deal  of 
water  has  run  under  the  bridge  while  we  have  been  sitting 
here,  and  as  I  look  up  and  down  this  table  and  see  the  many 
dignitaries  of  church  and  state,  men  prominent  in  education 
and  philanthropy,  I  realize  that  there  is  a  good  deal  of 
deep  water  still  ahead  of  us  for  the  afternoon,  and  I  do  not 
wish  to  obstruct  navigation.  If  we  multiply  the  whole 
number  of  delegates  present  by  the  average  time  that  it 
takes  each  man  to  make  a  speech  (including  the  time 
required  for  the  Toastmaster  to  introduce  him),  it  is  found 
that  it  will  require  approximately  eighteen  and  three- 
quarter  hours  to  finish  these  exercises.  In  view  of  this 
fact  I  shall  reduce  my  own  remarks  to  a  minimum. 

No  one  can  fail  to  be  impressed  and  delighted  with  what 
has  been  seen  and  heard  here  today.  In  years  gone  by 


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there  may  have  been  some  little  rivalry  affecting  the  rela- 
tions which  existed  between  the  colleges  of  the  country; 
that  is  a  thing  of  the  past,  and  it  certainly  augurs  well 
for  the  cause  of  higher  education  in  America  that  repre- 
sentatives of  so  many  of  our  great  institutions  have  gathered 
here  to  prove  their  deep  interest  in  this  college  and  to  take 
part  in  the  inauguration  of  her  new  president. 

I  beg  to  express  the  hope,  Sir  [addressing  President 
Few],  that  your  administration  may  carry  out  in  detail  the 
ideas  contained  in  your  admirable  inaugural  address  deliv- 
ered this  morning.  As  I  listened  to  it,  it  seemed  to  me  that 
it  was  the  address  of  an  idealist.  I  believe  it  was.  We 
are  well  convinced  that  your  administration  will  be  emi- 
nently successful.  We  have  no  fear  as  to  the  financial 
future  of  this  institution;  we  have  no  fear  as  to  its  intel- 
lectual future,  and  I  confidently  hope  that  you  may  real- 
ize your  own  ideals,  that  you  may  do  much  more  for  the 
students  of  Trinity  College  than  to  teach  them  to  be  law- 
abiding  citizens  of  North  Carolina.  May  you  be  per- 
mitted to  lead  them  into  the  high  mountains,  to  touch 
their  hearts  and  lives,  that  the  young  women  of  Trinity 
College  may  be  women  of  sweeter  charity  and  deeper 
sympathy,  and  the  young  men  may  be  men  of  more  devoted 
loyalty  and  more  exalted  patriotism  because  of  your 
inspiring  leadership. 


THE  TOASTMASTER 

I  had  one  or  two  other  good  stories,  but,  after  the  flatter- 
ing reference  to  my  remarks  made  by  the  Dean  of  Yale, 
I  shall  omit  them. 

We  have  in  the  South  a  good  many  institutions  that  we 
could  name  in  line  with  the  great  institutions  that  have 
been  represented  this  afternoon,  but  there  is  one  whose 
progress  we  have  watched  with  peculiar  pride,  one  whose 


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work  stands  out  with  prominence  and  one  whose  great 
usefulness  has  been  increasing  year  after  year.  Tulane 
University  has  received  large  endowments  for  medical 
education  and  for  the  education  of  women.  It  occupies 
in  these  two  fields  a  distinct  leadership  among  southern 
institutions.  It  has  also  largely  developed  its  work  for 
the  technical  training  of  the  young  men  of  the  South. 
Tulane  University  may  therefore  very  naturally  look 
forward  to  a  great  career  in  coming  years,  and  I  take  great 
pleasure  in  introducing  its  President,  Dr.  E.  B.  Craighead. 


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PRESIDENT  EDWIN  BOONE  CRAIGHEAD 

In  New  Orleans  there  is  a  common  belief  that  the  value 
of  a  university  president  is  in  inverse  ratio  to  his  oratorical 
ability.  If  that  be  true,  what  shall  we  say  of  the  Presi- 
dents of  Vanderbilt,  Harvard,  Princeton,  Yale,  and  others 
who  have  spoken  so  eloquently  this  afternoon! 

If  I  may  be  permitted  to  use  a  word  still  heard  in  the 
best  circles  of  New  Orleans — a  word,  I  am  told,  under  ban 
here  at  Trinity — indeed  in  this  home  of  intellectual  liberty, 
no  professor  may  use  it  without  risking  his  official  head — 
I  am  charmed  to  be  here  on  this  occasion.  I  was  here 
sixteen  years  ago,  having  accepted  an  invitation  to  make 
your  commencement  address.  I  have  never  been  invited 
to  return.  (Laughter.)  I  have,  however,  the  consola- 
tion of  knowing  that  some  of  you  who  made  fine  addresses 
on  this  occasion  will  likely  wait  a  good  deal  longer  than 
sixteen  years  for  an  opportunity  to  make  another  speech 
at  Trinity.  It  may  take  a  change  of  administration  to 
bring  you  back,  as  it  did  in  my  case.  As  President  Few  is 
still  a  young  man,  we  may  reasonably  expect  the  reign  of 
Few  to  continue  some  twenty-five  or  thirty  years  at  least. 

What  a  change  has  come  over  Trinity  in  these  sixteen 
years!  It  was  in  the  early  days  of  the  administration  of 
your  predecessor  that  I  visited  this  place.  All  the  good 
people  of  this  state  and  of  Durham  who  had  worked  for 
this  college  were  in  despair,  and  Mr.  Washington  Duke, 
that  grand. old  man  of  great  heart  (long  applause) — that 
grand  old  man,  I  repeat,  of  great  heart  and  of  big  brain, 
who  might  be  called  the  father  of  the  new  Trinity,  declared 
he  was  not  going  to  give  another  cent  to  the  College.  All 


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your  good  people  were  wondering  whether  the  long,  lean, 
little  preacher,  who  had  just  come  here  from  South  Caro- 
lina would  be  able  to  pull  this  institution  out  of  the  mire. 
I  knew  that  he  would  succeed.  I  knew  that  he  had  the 
courage,  the  energy,  enthusiasm,  and  devotion  out  of  which 
great  college  presidents  are  made.  His  voice  had  already 
been  heard  in  every  part  of  South  Carolina — at  Charleston, 
at  Columbia,  and  at  Greenwood,  in  the  backwoods  of  the 
hill-country,  in  the  lowlands,  where  fevers  seize  the  bodies 
of  men  and  ignorance  hangs  like  thick  darkness  over  the 
minds  of  men.  I  knew  that  he  would  be  able  to  build  a 
college  in  the  swamps,  on  the  mountain-tops,  or  in  this 
busy  mart  of  trade.  I  know  of  no  single  educational 
work  in  the  whole  South  that  surpasses  the  work  of  your 
predecessor  during  the  past  sixteen  years.  He  was  not 
long  here  until  Mr.  Washington  Duke  was  ready  without 
asking  to  give  to  this  college,  and  he  gave  to  it  liberally. 
His  sons,  in  the  spirit  of  their  father,  have  continued  the 
good  work,  and  so  have  other  people  throughout  the  state 
of  North  Carolina. 

I  was  much  pleased  with  the  great  speech  of  President 
Judson,  especially  with  what  he  had  to  say  of  educational 
ideals.  Some  colleges  and  some  universities  advertise 
the  fact  that  the  students  who  come  to  them  are  taught 
how  to  hustle  and  how  to  get  on  in  the  world,  and  especially 
how  to  succeed  in  politics.  Some  institutions  turn  out 
dreamy  men,  who  do  nothing  in  the  world.  But,  according 
to  President  Judson's  idea,  a  college  should  send  out  men 
trained  for  efficient  service.  There's  a  story  told  of  a 
Harvard,  a  Yale,  and  a  Princeton  man.  These  three 
students  had  just  gone  aboard  a  ship,  when  an  old  lady 
came  on  deck.  The  Harvard  man  said,  "Boys,  someone 
should  get  a  chair  for  the  old  lady."  The  Princeton  man 
got  the  chair  and  placed  it,  and  the  Yale  man  took  it. 
(Laughter.)  Now  gentlemen,  I  do  not  mean  to  intimate 
that  this  story  sets  forth  the  Yale  ideal  or  the  Harvard 


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ideal;  but  in  this  day  of  hustle,  in  this  materialistic  age, 
the  college  that  keeps  before  the  students  the  ideal  of 
service  to  mankind  is  doing  something  worth  while. 

I  think  the  South  has  contributed  several  educational 
ideals.  In  the  first  place,  the  idea  of  a  great  state  univer- 
sity is  a  contribution  of  the  South.  I  believe  North  Caro- 
lina had  the  first  state  university — or  was  it  Georgia? 
Thomas  Jefferson  had  the  idea  of  a  great  state  university. 
It  was  never  fully  realized  in  Virginia,  but  it  has  since 
blossomed  out  in  full  fruition  in  Minnesota,  Wisconsin, 
California,  and  other  states  of  the  West.  Johns  Hopkins 
University,  a  southern  institution,  wrought  a  complete 
revolution  in  the  university  ideals  of  this  country.  Presi- 
dent Oilman  gathered  around  him  a  small  faculty  of  the 
very  best  men  he  could  find  in  this  country  and  started 
the  first  real  university  in  the  United  States — indeed 
Johns  Hopkins  is  still  revolutionizing  the  higher  educational 
ideals  of  this  country.  We  cannot  speak  too  well  of  Johns 
Hopkins. 

I  trust  that  President  Few  will  carry  out  his  great  plan 
and  give  us  still  another  and  a  greater  conception  of  the 
American  college.  I  was  glad  to  hear  him  say  that  the 
large  institution  is  not  necessarily  the  great  institution, 
and  that  the  small  college  may  be  a  great  college,  for  that 
is  what  we  need  to  learn  in  the  South.  A  college  of  400 
students  may  be  far  greater  than  the  college  of  5,000  stu- 
dents. I  should  like  to  see  him  do  for  college  education 
what  Johns  Hopkins  did  for  university  education.  I  should 
like  to  see  here  at  Trinity  College  a  college  not  only  as  good 
as  Amherst,  Dartmouth,  and  Bowdoin,  but  the  greatest 
college  of  this  country.  But  more  money  will  be  needed. 
I  should  like  to  hear  this  college  declare  that  no  full  pro- 
fessor shall  receive  less  than  $5,000  a  year — not  enough  to 
make  him  proud,  but  enough  to  enable  him  to  live  com- 
fortably and  to  make  it  impossible  for  any  other  college  or 
university  to  take  this  professor  from  you.  This  college, 


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with  ten  or  twelve  men  receiving  salaries  from  $5,000  to 
$10,000  a  year,  the  very  best  teachers  to  be  secured  any- 
where in  this  country,  would  bring  about  a  complete  revo- 
lution in  American  educational  ideals.  Such  a  concep- 
tion of  a  college  is  contrary  to  the  idea  that  vastness  is 
greatness;  but  it  is  the  true  conception,  and,  after  hearing 
your  inspiring  address,  I  think  you  are  going  to  have  at 
Trinity  such  a  college  as  that,  and  in  the  very  near  future. 
(Applause.) 

Now,  gentlemen,  I  cannot  invite  you  to  New  Orleans  as 
my  friend  on  the  left  [Dr.  Downey]  invited  you  to  Minne- 
sota, at  least,  I  trust  it  will  not  be  necessary  for  you  to 
come  there  (laughter)  to  see  the  inauguration  of  a  new 
president.  But  I  am  going  to  invite  you  to  come  to  New 
Orleans,  the  logical  point  for  the  great  Panama  Exposi- 
tion. (Applause.) 


THE  TOASTMASTER 

We  have  reached  the  conclusion  of  these  very  inter- 
esting exercises.  You  will  pardon  me  if  I  relinquish  my 
post  as  toastmaster  for  just  a  moment  to  speak  one  word 
as  a  representative  of  the  visiting  delegates  and  to  express 
to  our  hosts,  the  faculty  and  trustees  of  Trinity  College,  the 
great  satisfaction  that  we  have  derived  from  our  experience 
today.  This  has  been  indeed  a  great  day  for  all  of  us,  as 
well  as  a  great  day  for  Trinity  College.  We  came  here 
with  a  full  appreciation  of  the  past  history  of  this  institu- 
tion. We  leave  with  a  profounder  respect  for  the  College 
and  for  what  it  has  done.  We  cherish  the  hope,  which 
takes  on  an  element  of  certainty,  that  the  future  of  this 
institution  will  be  all  that  its  friends  have  expressed  today 
as  their  desire  for  it.  Our  minds  will  turn  to  this  campus 
in  coming  years.  We  shall  watch  with  interest  your 
constant  progress.  We  shall  rejoice  in  your  success  and 


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we  shall  be  glad  to  extend  a  hand — a  helping  hand — in 
any  great  educational  work  that  you  may  enter  upon. 

Our  last  word  and  the  last  lingering  sentiment  that  we 
would  express  on  this  occasion  is,  God  bless  Trinity  College 
and  all  the  men  into  whose  hands  its  high  destinies  are 
today  committed! 


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APPENDIX 


FORMS  OF  INVITATIONS,  CIRCULARS, 
ANNOUNCEMENTS 


[Reduced  Facsimile  of  the  Invitation  to  Other  Institutions] 


TRINITY  COLLEGE 
DURHAM,  NORTH  CAROLINA 


The  Inauguration  of 

WILLIAM    PRESTON    FEW 

as  President  of  the 

College 


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'Durham,  Jfyrth  Carolina 
OElober  i">  1910 


SiR: 

By  dire&ion  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Trinity 
College,  I  have  the  honor  to  inform  you  and  other 
members  of  the  Faculty  of 


that  the  inauguration  of  WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW, 
PH.D.,  as  President  of  Trinity  College,  will  take 
place  in  Durham  on  Thursday,  November  tenth, 
in  the  Year  of  our  Lord  nineteen  hundred  and  ten, 
and  of  Trinity  College  the  fifty-second. 


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The  Trustees  request  the  presence  of  a  delegate 
frbm  your  body  on  that  occasion. 

In  case  this  invitation  is  accepted,  they  desire 
a  reply  before  O&ober  twentieth,  containing  the 
name,  title,  and  post-office  address  of  the  delegate 
sele&ed.  It  should  be  sent  to  the  SECRETARY 
TO  THE  CORPORATION,  Trinity  College,  Durham, 
North  Carolina. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be, 

Sir, 
Very  respe&fully  yours, 


Secretary  to  the  Corporation 


To  the 


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[Reduced  Facsimile  of  the  Announcement  of  a  Change  of  the  Date] 


THE  INAUGURATION  OF  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  TRINITY  COLLEGE 
AT  DURHAM,  NOVEMBER  9.  1910 


By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  I  have  the  honor  to  inform  the 
President  and  other  members  of  the  Faculty  of 


that  the  date  of  the  inauguration  of 

William  Preston  Few  as  President  of  Trinity  College 

has  been  changed  from  Thursday,  November  tenth, 

to  Wednesday,  November  ninth. 

SECRETARY  TO  THE  CORPORATION 


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[Reduced  Facsimile  of  the  Invitation  to  Delegates  and  Specially  Invited' Guests] 


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[Facsimile  of  the  Invitation  to  Alumni] 


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1910 


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[Facsimile  of  the  Invitation  to  the  Delegates,  Specially  Invited  Guests,   and 
Members  of  the  Board  of  Trustees] 


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[Facsimile  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  Newton  Duke's  Invitations  which  were 
sent  to  Delegates,  Guests,  Members  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  of  the 
Faculties,  and  the  Alumni] 


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sutie  ,&  'clock, 
1910 


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[Copy  of  the  Invitation  sent  by  Mrs.  Stagg  to  the  Ladies  Accompanying  the 
Delegates  and  Specially  Invited  Guests] 


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1940 


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[Circular  Letter  sent  to  Delegates,  Specially  Invited  Guests,  and  Alumni] 


INAUGURATION  OF  WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW,  PH.D., 

AS  PRESIDENT  OF  TRINITY  COLLEGE, 

NOVEMBER  9 

TRINITY  COLLEGE,  DURHAM,  N.C. 

October  20,  1910 

DEAR  SIR:  The  Committee  on  Arrangements  for  the  installa- 
tion of  the  President  of  Trinity  College,  on  November  9,  begs 
leave  to  inform  you  that  the  program  for  the  day,  in  outline, 
is  as  follows: 

9:00  A.M. — The  Registration  of  Delegates  and  Invited  Guests  will 
take  place  in  the  Washington  Duke  Building,  West  Wing. 

9 : 30  A.M. — The  Presentation  of  the  Washington  Duke  Building,  West 
Wing,  will  take  place  in  the  Auditorium  of  this  building. 

Immediately  after  this  exercise,  Delegates  and  Guests  are  requested  to 
assemble  promptly  in  the  lower  hall  of  the  Washington  Duke  Building, 
West  Wing,  where  they  will  form  in  procession  and  move  to  the  Craven 
Memorial  Hall. 

10:00  A.M. — The  formal  Exercises  of  Installation  will  be  held  in  the 
Craven  Memorial  Hall — the  Introduction  of  the  President,  Congratulatory 
Addresses,  and  the  President's  Inaugural. 

Immediately  after  these  exercises,  the  Delegates  from  other  Institutions 
will  be  formally  presented  in  the  Washington  Duke  Building,  West  Wing. 

i  :oo  P.M. — A  Luncheon  will  be  served  in  the  Washington  Duke  Building, 
West  Wing,  to  the  Delegates,  Specially  Invited  Guests,  Trustees,  and 
Members  of  the  Faculties. 

9 :  oo  P.M. — Reception  to  the  Delegates  and  Specially  Invited  Guests  at 
the  residence  of  Mr.  Benjamin  N.  Duke. 

For  the  convenience  of  Delegates  who  wish  to  attend  the 
meeting  of  the  Association  of  American  Universities,  which 
meets  at  Charlottesville,  Va.,  November  10,  arrangements  have 
been  made  with  the  Southern  Railroad  to  run  a  special  train  to 
Greensboro,  leaving  Durham  at  n  P.M.  The  Pullman  cars  will 


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be  attached  to  the  train  which  leaves  Greensboro  at  2:05  A-M- 
This  arrangement  will  enable  Delegates  to  reach  Charlottesville, 
Va.,  at  7:30  A.M.  Thursday  morning,  November  10. 

FOR  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  ARRANGEMENTS 
R.  L.  FLOWERS 

Secretary  to  the  Corporation 


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[Second  Circular  Letter  sent  to  Delegates  and  Guests] 


THE  INAUGURATION  OF  WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW, 

PH.D.,  AS  PRESIDENT  OF  TRINITY  COLLEGE, 

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  9 

TRINITY  COLLEGE,  DURHAM,  N.C. 


SPECIAL    INFORMATION    CONCERNING    RAILROAD    SCHEDULES 

Durham  may  be  reached  by  the  Southern  Railroad  from  Rich- 
mond, Va.,  and  from  Greensboro,  N.C.,  and  Goldsboro,  N.C.; 
by  the  Norfolk  &  Western  from  Lynchburg,  Va.;  by  the  Sea- 
board Air  Line  from  Henderson,  N.C.;  by  the  Durham  and 
Southern,  connecting  with  the  Atlantic  Coast  Line  at  Dunn  and 
with  the  Seaboard  Air  Line  at  Apex,  N.C. 

For  the  convenience  of  delegates  and  guests,  many  of  whom 
will  prefer  to  come  over  the  Southern  Railway  via  Greensboro, 
N.C.,  the  following  special  arrangements  have  been  made.  A 
special  train  carrying  a  Pullman  and  a  dining-car,  which  will 
serve  breakfast  between  Greensboro  and  Durham,  will  leave 
Greensboro  at  7 : 10  on  the  morning  of  November  9  and  reach 
Durham  at  8 : 55.  This  train  will  carry  all  delegates  coming  from 
the  North  and  East  on  train  No.  37  (Southern  Railway),  which 
leaves  New  York  at  4:25  P.M.,  and  Washington,  D.C.,  at  10:45 
P.M.,  Tuesday,  November  8,  and  which  reaches  Greensboro, 
N.C.,  at  7:05  A.M.,  Wednesday,  November  9.  Delegates  from 
the  South  and  West  may  come  on  this  same  special  train  by 
leaving  Atlanta  on  train  No.  38  (Southern  Railway),  Tuesday, 
November  8,  at  n  A.M.  This  train  reaches  Greensboro  at  10:03 
P.M.  the  same  day. 

Those  who  come  by  the  way  of  Knoxville  and  Asheville  may 
leave  the  former  place  on  train  No.  12  (Southern  Railway),  at 
7:40  A.M.,  Tuesday,  November  8,  and  the  latter  at  2:25  P.M. 


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This  train  reaches  Salisbury,  N.C.,  at  7:50  P.M.,  and  connects 
with  No.  38  from  Atlanta. 

For  the  convenience  of  delegates  who  wish  to  attend  the 
meeting  of  the  Association  of  American  Universities  at  Char- 
lottesville,  Va.,  November  10,  a  special  train  carrying  Pullman 
cars  will  leave  Durham  at  11:30  P.M.,  Wednesday,  November  9. 
The  Pullman  cars  on  this  train  will  be  attached  to  No.  30,  which 
leaves  Greensboro  at  2:05  A.M.,  Thursday,  November  10,  and 
arrives  at  Charlottesville  at  7 : 20  A.M.,  Washington  at  10:40  A.M., 
and  New  York  at  5:00  P.M. 

All  those  who  wish  to  use  either  or  both  of  these  special  trains 
will  notify  R.  L.  Flowers,  Secretary  to  the  Corporation,  Trinity 
College,  Durham,  N.C.,  not  later  than  November  5;  those  desiring 
to  use  the  special  train  out  of  Durham  on  Wednesday  night  will 
please  specify  the  amount  of  space  they  wish  reserved.  All 
those  who  will  reach  Durham  on  the  regular  trains  will  please 
inform  the  Secretary  td  the  Corporation  what  time  they  expect 
to  arrive. 


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[Circular  Letter  sent  to  Alumni] 


INAUGURATION  OF  WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW,  PH.D., 

AS  PRESIDENT  OF  TRINITY  COLLEGE, 

NOVEMBER  9 

TRINITY  COLLEGE,  DURHAM,  N.C. 

October  21,  1910 

DEAR  SIR:  The  Inauguration  of  William  Preston  Few  as 
President  of  Trinity  College,  will  take  place  in  Durham,  Wednes- 
day, November  9.  The  first  exercise  will  be  the  Presentation  of 
the  new  Washington  Duke  Building,  West  Wing.  Immediately 
after  this  exercise,  an  academic  procession  will  form  and 
proceed  to  the  Craven  Memorial  Hall,  where  the  formal  exercises 
of  installation  will  be  held;  the  charter  and  seal  of  the  College 
will  be  presented  to  the  President-elect  by  Bishop  John  C.  Kilgo; 
congratulatory  Addresses  will  be  delivered  by  Governor  William 
W.  Kitchin,  in  behalf  of  the  Commonwealth,  and  by  Dr.  Harry 
Pratt  Judson,  President  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  in  behalf 
of  the  visiting  delegates.  After  this,  President  Few  will  deliver 
his  inaugural. 

The  President  and  Faculty  will  give  a  luncheon  at  1:00  P.M. 
to  Delegates,  Specially  Invited  Guests,  Trustees,  and  Alumni. 

In  the  evening,  a  reception  will  be  given  by  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Benjamin  N.  Duke  at  their  residence  in  Durham. 

The  representation  from  other  institutions  will  be  unusually 
large,  and  this  occasion  promises  to  be  the  most  notable  one  of 
its  kind  ever  held  at  a  southern  institution. 

The  Committee  on  Arrangements  is  exceedingly  anxious  that 
there  should  be  a  large  number  of  the  Alumni  present.  The 
Alumni  are  requested  to  join  in  the  procession,  and  arrangements 
have  been  made  by  which  academic  costumes  may  be  rented 
at  the  College.  The  Bachelor's  gown  and  cap  may  be  rented 


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for  one  dollar;  the  Master's  gown,  cap,  and  hood  for  three  dollars 
and  a  half,  and  the  Doctor's  for  five  dollars.  If  you  wish  to 
secure  a  costume,  please  fill  out  the  enclosed  blank  at  once  and 
return  it  to  Dr.  F.  C.  Brown,  Trinity  College,  Durham,  N.C., 
not  later  than  October  27,  and  he  will  take  pleasure  in  sending 
in  the  order. 

Since  admission  to  all  functions,  excepting  the  exercises  in 
Craven  Memorial  Hall,  will  be  by  ticket  only,  the  Alumni  are 
urgently  requested  to  notify  me  not  later  than  October  27  in 
order  that  tickets  may  be  provided  for  them. 

Very  truly  yours, 

R.  L.  FLOWERS 

Secretary  to  the  Corporation 


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[Private  Mailing  Card  sent  to  Delegates] 


TRINITY  COLLEGE 

DURHAM 
NORTH    CAROLINA 

Dear  Sir: 

Please  fill  in  the  blanks  on 
the  other  side  of  this  card  and 
mail  to  me  at  your  earliest 
convenience . 

Thanking  you  in  advance,  I  am, 
Very  sincerely, 

(OVER) 


Institution  ^epresented- 


When  Founded 
Full  Name  of  Delegate 

Degrees  

Official  Position 


Name  of  Institution  with  Which  Delegate  is  Connected- 


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[Private  Mailing  Card  sent  to  Alumni  and  Others] 


ORDER  FOR  ACADEMIC  COSTUME 


Name 

Degree Institution. 


Size  of  Coat Size  of  Hat Height 

Weight Erect  or  stooping  figure 


Special  arrangements  have  been  made  with  the  firm  supplying  these  cos- 
tumes so  that  they  may  be  rented  for  this  occasion  at  a  very  low  rate: 

Bachelor's  Cap  and  Gown        .        .        .        $1.00 

Master's  Cap,  Gown,  and  Hood      .        .        $3.50 

.  Doctor's  Cap,  Gown,  and  Hood      .        .        $5.00 

All  who  desire  Academic  costumes  supplied  them  should  notify  the  Secretary  to 
the  Corporation  not  later  than  October  twenty-seventh. 


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[Reduced  Copy  of  the  Program] 


TRINITY  COLLEGE 


ORDER  OF  EXERCISES 

FOR  THE  INDUCTION  OF 

WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW,  PH.D. 

INTO  THE  OFFICE  OF 

PRESIDENT 

NOVEMBER  NINTH 
MDCCCCX 


Academic  Costume 

Delegates,  Specially  Invited  Guests,  Members  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  of  the 
Faculties  will  wear  Academic  Costume  at  the  Inaugural  Ceremonies  on  Wednesday 
Morning;  on  all  other  occasions,  the  ordinary  afternoon  or  evening  dress  appropriate 
to  the  hour. 


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I 

THE  WASHINGTON  DUKE  BUILDING,  WEST  WING 

Enrolment  of  Delegates  and  Guests 
9:00 — 9:30  A.M. 

II 

THE  WASHINGTON  DUKE  BUILDING,  WEST  WING 
Presentation  Exercises 

9:30 — 10:00  A.M. 

Presentation 
BENJAMIN  NEWTON  DUKE 

Acceptance 

JAMES  HAYWOOD  SOUTHGATE 
The  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 

After  the  Presentation  Exercises,  the  Honorable  Delegates,  Specially  Invited 
Guests,  Members  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  of  the  Faculties  will  form  in  procession 
and  move  to  the  Craven  Memorial  Hall 

ORDER  OF  THE  PROCESSION 

CHIEF  MARSHAL 

AIDS 

7 

AIDS 

The  PROFESSORS  OF  THE  COLLEGE 

The  PROFESSORS  IN  THE  SCHOOL  OF  LAW 

The  ASSISTANT  PROFESSORS  OF  THE  COLLEGE 

The  Other  Members  of  the  Faculties  of  the  College 

The  Alumni  of  the  College  in  Order  of  Their  Classes 

II 

THE  COLLEGE  MARSHAL 

The  DELEGATES  FROM  OTHER  INSTITUTIONS 

The  SPECIALLY  INVITED  GUESTS 


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AIDS 
The  MEMBERS  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

The  BURSAR,  Bearing  the  Keys 

The  LIBRARIAN,  Bearing  the  Charter 

The  SECRETARY  TO  THE  CORPORATION,  Bearing  the  Seal 

The  DEAN  OF  THE  FACULTY  OF  LAW 

The  DEAN  OF  THE  COLLEGE 

The  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

The  MAYOR  OF  THE  CITY  OF  DURHAM 

The  GOVERNOR  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH 

The  Reverend  STONEWALL  ANDERSON 

FREDERICK  WILLIAM  HAMILTON 

President  of  Tufts  College 

The  RETIRING  PRESIDENT 

HARRY  PRATT  JUDSON 

President  of  the  University  of  Chicago 

The  PRESIDENT-ELECT 


III 

THE  CRAVEN  MEMORIAL  HALL 

The  Exercises  of  Induction 

Music 

Processional  Hymn 

It  is  requested  that  the  audience  stand  during  the  singing  of  the  hymn 

1  How  firm  a  foundation,  ye  saints  of  the  Lord, 
Is  laid  for  your  faith  in  His  excellent  Word! 
What  more  can  He  say  than  to  you  He  hath  said, 
Who  unto  the  Saviour  for  refuge  have  fled  ? 

2  "Fear  not,  I  am  with  thee,  oh,  be  not  dismayed, 

For  I  am  thy  God,  and  will  still  give  thee  aid; 

I'll  strengthen  thee,  help  thee,  and  cause  thee  to  stand, 

Upheld  by  My  righteous,  omnipotent  hand. 

3  "When  through  the  deep  waters  I  call  thee  to  go, 

The  rivers  of  sorrow  shall  not  overflow; 
For  I  will  be  with  thee,  thy  troubles  to  bless, 
And  sanctify  to  thee  thy  deepest  distress. 


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4  "When  through  fiery  trials  thy  pathway  shall  lie, 

My  grace,  all-sufficient,  shall  be  thy  supply; 
The  flame  shall  not  hurt  thee:  I  only  design 
Thy  dross  to  consume,  and  thy  gold  to  refine. 

5  "Even  down  to  old  age  all  My  people  shall  prove 

My  sovereign,  eternal,  unchangeable  love; 
And  when  hoary  hairs  shall  their  temples  adorn, 
Like  lambs  they  shall  still  in  My  bosom  be  borne. 

6  "The  soul  that  on  Jesus  hath  leaned  for  repose, 

I  will  not,  I  will  not  desert  to  his  foes; 

That  soul,  though  all  hell  should  endeavor  to  shake, 

I'll  never,  no  never,  no  never  forsake!" 


Invocation 

The  Reverend  STONEWALL  ANDERSON,  D.D., 
Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Education, 
Methodist  Episcopal  Churchy  South 


The  Induction  and  the  Presentation  of  the 
Charter  and  Seal 

JOHN  CARLISLE  KILGO,  A.M.,  D.D.,  LL.D., 

The  Retiring  President,  Bishop  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South 


The  Acceptance 
The  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  COLLEGE 

Addresses  of  Congratulation 

The  Honorable  WILLIAM  WALTON  KITCHIN, 

The  Governor  of  the  Commonwealth, 

in  behalf  of  the  State 

HARRY  PRATT  JUDSON,  A.M.,  LL.D., 

The  President  of  the  University  of  Chicago, 
in  behalf  of  the  HONORABLE  DELEGATES 

The  Inaugural  Address 
President  WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW,  PH.D. 


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Benediction 

FREDERICK  WILLIAM  HAMILTON,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
The  President  of  Tufts  College 

Music 

It  is  requested  that  the  audience  remain  standing  while  the  procession  is  leaving 
the  Hall 

IV 

THE  WASHINGTON  DUKE  BUILDING,  WEST  WING 
Presentation  of  the  Honorable  Delegates 

in  the  Order  of  the  Foundation  of  their  Institutions 
12:30 — 1:00  P.M. 


V 

THE  WASHINGTON  DUKE  BUILDING,  WEST  WING 

Luncheon 

1:00  P.M 

Presiding  Officer, 

JAMES  HAMPTON  KIRKLAND,  PH.D.,  LL.D., 

The  Chancellor  of  Vanderbilt  University 

The  seats  for  Delegates,  Guests,  and  Trustees  will  be  indicated  by  cards  placed  on 
the  tables 

VI 

THE  RESIDENCE  OF  MR.  JAMES  EDWARD  STAGG 
Luncheon 

1:00  P.M. 

Mrs.  JAMES  EDWARD  STAGG 
will  give  a  Luncheon  to  the  Ladies  accompanying  the  Delegates 

VII 

THE  RESIDENCE  OF  MR.  BENJAMIN  NEWTON  DUKE 
Reception 

9:OO-Ii:OO  P.M. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  BENJAMIN  NEWTON  DUKE 

will  receive  the  Delegates, 

Specially  Invited  Guests,  Members  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
and  of  the  Faculties  of  the  College 


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[Copy  of  Folder  which  was  presented  to  Delegates  and  Guests  on  their  arrival  in 

Durham] 


THE  INAUGURATION  OF  WILLIAM   PRESTON  FEW, 
PH.D.,  AS  PRESIDENT  OF  TRINITY  COLLEGE 

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  9 


TRINITY  COLLEGE,  DURHAM,  N.C. 
INFORMATION   FOR  DELEGATES   AND   GUESTS 

1.  Delegates  and  Guests  will  please  enrol  their  names  in  the 
Washington  Duke  Building,  West  Wing  (in  the  room  marked 
" Enrolment"),  and  don  the  academic  costume  (in  the  Dressing- 
Room  for  Delegates)  between  9:00  and  9:30,  in  preparation  for 
the  Presentation  of  the  Building  at  9 : 30. 

2.  At  9:30  all  Delegates  and  Guests  will  congregate  in  the 
Assembly-Room  (second  floor  of  the  same  building)  for  the 
Presentation  Exercises  of  the  Washington  Duke  Building,  West 
Wing. 

3.  At  10:00  o'clock,  as  the  names  of  Delegates  and  Guests 
are  called,  they  will  please  form  in  the  line  of  procession,  which 
will  move  to  the  Craven  Memorial  Hall. 

4.  After  the  exercises  in  the  Craven  Memorial  Hall  all  Dele- 
gates and  Guests  are  requested  to  take  their  places  in  the  pro- 
cession at  the  direction  of  the  marshals  and  return  to  the  Wash- 
ington Duke  Building,  West  Wing,  where  the  Presentation  of 
Delegates  will  be  held. 

5.  At  12:30,  in  the  Assembly-Room  of  the  Duke  Building, 
the  Delegates  will  be  presented,  in  full  academic  costume,  to 


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the  President  of  the  College,  the  Governor  of  the  Commonwealth, 
the  retiring  President,  the  Commissioner  of  Education  of  the 
United  States.  After  he  is  presented,  each  delegate  will  take 
position  in  the  receiving  line. 

6.  Immediately  after  the  Presentation  of  the  Delegates,  all 
Delegates  and  Guests  are  requested  to  assemble,  by  direction  of 
the  marshals,  for  a  photograph. 

7.  After  the  taking  of  the  photograph,  Delegates  and  Guests 
may  leave  their  costumes  in  the  Dressing-Room  for  Delegates. 
Here  they  will  be  wrapped  and  delivered  to  the  owners  after  the 
Luncheon. 

8.  After  the  Luncheon,  all  Delegates  who  desire  to  make  the 
trip  will  be  conveyed  in  automobiles  to  the  Watts  Hospital  and 
to  some  of  the  factories  and  other  points  of  interest  in  the  City. 

9.  When  the  trip  over  parts  of  the  City  has  been  finished, 
Delegates  and  Guests  will  be  taken  to  the  homes  of  those  who 
will  entertain  them  during  their  stay  in  the  City. 

will  be  entertained  at  the  home  of 

10.  At  9:00  P.M.  all  Delegates  and  Guests  are  invited  to  the 
Reception  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  Newton 
Duke  on  Chapel  Hill  Street. 

11.  The  special  train  will  leave  for  Greensboro  at  11:30  P.M. 
Delegates  and  Guests  who  desire  to  take  this  train  should  leave 
orders  at  the  Bureau  of  Information  for  what  space  they  desire ; 
otherwise,  room  cannot  be  guaranteed.     Since  many  will  find 
it  necessary  to  go  directly  from  the  Reception  to  the  train,  they 
should  arrange  to  have  baggage  sent  to  the  special  Pullman  before 
they  go  to  the  Reception.     If  orders  are  left  at  the  Bureau  of 
Information,  the  Committee  on  Arrangements  will  have  baggage 
transferred. 

NOTE. — Any  Delegate  or  Guest  who  has  not  tickets  for  the 
Presentation  of  the  Building,  the  Presentation  of  Delegates,  or 
the  Luncheon,  will  please  call  at  the  Bureau  of  Information. 

Academic  costume  will  be  worn  on  all  the  above  occasions, 
except  the  Luncheon  and  the  Reception.  Caps  should  be  removed 
as  Delegates  are  seated,  except  at  the  Presentation  of  Delegates, 
when  they  should  not  be  removed  at  all. 


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[Copy  of  Folder  which  was  presented  to  Alumni  on  their  arrival  in  Durham] 


THE  INAUGURATION  OF  WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW, 
PH.D.,  AS  PRESIDENT  OF  TRINITY  COLLEGE 

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  9 


TRINITY  COLLEGE,  DURHAM,  N.C. 
INFORMATION  FOR  ALUMNI 

1.  Alumni  will  call  at  the  Bureau  of  Information  for  tickets 
for  the  Presentation  of  the  Washington  Duke  Building,  West 
Wing,  and  the  Presentation  of  Delegates,  before  9:30  Wednesday 
morning. 

2.  Alumni  will  please  get  costumes,  in  the  room  marked 
"Costumes,"  before  9:30  Wednesday  morning;    they  will  don 
the  costumes  before  going  into  the  Assembly-Room  to  the  exer- 
cises at  9 : 30. 

3.  At  9:30  all  Alumni  are  invited  to  be  present  at  the  Presen- 
tation of  the  Washington  Duke  Building.     Admission  by  ticket. 

4.  After  the  Presentation  of  the  Building,  the  Alumni,  in 
full  academic  costume,  will  form  in  the  line  of  procession  immedi- 
ately behind  the  members  of  the  Faculties  of  the  College  and 
move  to  the  Craven  Memorial  Hall. 

5.  The  Alumni  will  take  seats  in  the  Craven  Memorial  Hall 
immediately  in  front  of  the  members  of  the  Faculties  of  the 
College. 

6.  After  the  exercises  in   the   Craven   Memorial   Hall  the 
Alumni  will  form  in  line  of  procession  immediately  behind  the 
members  of  the  Faculties,  and  return  in  this  order  to  the  Wash- 


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ington  Duke  Building,  where  the  Presentation  of  Delegates  will 
be  held. 

7.  At  12:30  all  Alumni  are  invited  to  be  present  in  the 
Assembly-Room  of  the  Washington  Duke  Building  at  the  Pres- 
entation of  Delegates.    Admission  by  ticket. 

8.  Luncheon  at  1:00  P.M. 

9.  At  9 :  oo  P.M.  all  Alumni  are  invited  to  attend  the  Reception 
at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  Newton  Duke  on 
Chapel  Hill  Street. 

NOTE. — Alumni  will  wear  full  academic  costumes  at  all  of 
the  above  occasions,  except  the  Luncheon  and  Reception. 
Caps  should  not  be  removed  until  wearers  take  their  seats. 


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[Copy  of  Circular  sent  to  Members  of  the  Faculties] 


THE  INAUGURATION  OF  WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW, 
PH.D.,  AS  PRESIDENT  OF  TRINITY  COLLEGE 

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  9 


INFORMATION  FOR  MEMBERS  OF  THE  FACULTIES 

1 .  Members  of  the  Faculties  will  be  present,  in  full  academic 
costume,   in    the   Assembly-Room   of   the   Washington   Duke 
Building,  West  Wing,  on  Wednesday  by  9: 15  A.M. 

2.  After  the  Presentation  Exercises,  members  of  the  Faculties 
will  form  in  the  line  of  procession  in  the  order  indicated  on  the 
program. 

3.  In  the  Craven  Memorial  Hall  Members  of  the  Faculties 
will  occupy  the  rear  rows  of  seats  in,  the  section  reserved  for  the 
Trustees,  Alumni,  and  members  of   the  Faculties.    Follow  the 
marshals. 

4.  After  the  exercises  in  the  Craven  Memorial  Hall  members 
of  the  Faculties  will  lead  the  procession  out  of  the  Hall.    Those 
on  the  last  row  of  seats  will  advance  immediately  after  the 
benediction  shall  have  been  pronounced. 

5.  On  returning  to  the  Washington  Duke  Building,  West 
Wing,  members  of  the  Faculties  will  congregate  in  the  Assembly- 
Room  for  the  Presentation  of  Delegates. 

6.  Members  of  the  Faculties  are  expected  to  be  present  at 
the  Luncheon  and  at  the  Reception  at  the  residence  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Benjamin  Newton  Duke. 

7.  Costumes  should  be  worn  at  all  of  the  exercises  excepting, 
of  course,  the  Luncheon  and  the  Reception.     Caps  should  not 
be  removed  until  the  wearers  are  seated. 

NOTE. — The  families  of  members  of  the  Faculties  are  invited 
to  be  present  at  the  Presentation  of  the  Building  at  9 : 30  and  at 
the  Presentation  of  Delegates  at  1 2 : 30.  Tickets  may  be  obtained 
at  the  Bureau  of  Information. 


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[Circular  sent  to  Marshals] 


INAUGURATION  OF  WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW,  PH.D., 
AS  PRESIDENT  OF  TRINITY  COLLEGE 

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  9 
INSTRUCTIONS   TO   THE  MARSHALS 

1 .  Be  present  at  the  new  building  by  8 : 30  A.M. 

2.  The  head  marshal  will  see  that  three  marshals  are  in  the 
Dressing-Room  for  Delegates  from  9 :  oo  to  9 : 30.    These  marshals 
will  assist  Delegates  and  Guests  in  hanging  their  hats  and  coats 
on  proper  hooks,  which  have  been  alphabetically  arranged,  and 
in  putting  on  their  costumes. 

The  head  marshal  will  also  see  that  there  are  three  marshals 
in  the  Dressing-Room  for  Alumni  and  Trustees  from  9:00  to 
9:30. 

The  head  marshal  will  station  three  marshals  at  the  entrance 
to  the  Building  to  direct  Delegates  and  guests  to  proper  rooms 
and  to  lend  any  other  assistance  that  they  may  be  able  to  give. 

3.  All  marshals  will  assist,  at  9:30,  in  seating  Delegates  and 
others  at  the  exercises  incident  to  the  Presentation  of  the  Wash- 
ington Duke  Building. 

4.  All  marshals  will  assist  in  the  proper  placing,  at  10:00 
o'clock,  of  Delegates  in  the  line  of  procession — they  will  escort 
them  to  the  proper  places;  they  will  then  take  their  own  places 
in  the  line  of  procession. 

5.  All  marshals  will  see  that  members  of  the  Faculties,  the 
Trustees,  and  others  are  seated  in  their  proper  sections  in  the 
Craven  Memorial  Hall. 

6.  The  marshals  will  take  places  inside  the  Assembly-Room 
near  the  doors  and  escort  all  Delegates  to  the  receiving  line 
when  they  are  presented. 

7.  The  marshals  will  assist  in  arranging  Delegates,  after  the 
Presentation  of  Delegates,  for  the  photograph. 


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8.  The  marshals  will  escort  the  Delegates  to  the  Dressing- 
Room  for  Delegates  and  then  conduct  them  to  the  dining-room 
for  luncheon. 

9.  Three  marshals  will  remain  near  the  door  during  the 
Luncheon;   the  others,  by  direction  of  the  head  marshal,  will 
arrange  automobiles  alphabetically  in  line. 

10.  After  the  Luncheon,  the  head  marshal  will  report  the 
names  of  cars,  and  the  marshals  will  assist  in  placing  the  Dele- 
gates and  Guests  in  the  cars. 


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To 


THE  Trustees  of  Trinity  College  have  the  honor  to  an- 
nounce that  William  Preston  Few,  Ph.D.,  was  duly 
inaugurated  as  President  of  Trinity  College  on  November 
ninth,  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord  nineteen  hundred  and  ten, 
in  the  presence  of  the  members  and  friends  of  the  College. 
The  President  and  Trustees  wish  to  acknowledge  their 
obligation  to  all  the  Institutions  and  Learned  Societies  which 
took  part  in  the  ceremonies  of  the  Inauguration  by  sending 
delegates  or  messages  of  congratulation.  These  manifesta- 
tions of  good-will  and  friendly  interest  have  greatly  encour- 
aged the  authorities  of  Trinity  College  in  their  endeavor  to 
be  of  real  service  in  the  cause  of  sound  learning. 


Secretary  to  the  (Corporation 


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10  'December,  1910 


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LIST  OF  VISITORS 


OF  THE 

UNIVERSITY 


DELEGATES  FROM  OTHER  INSTITUTIONS 

United  States  Bureau  of  Education 

THE  HONORABLE  ELMER  ELLSWORTH  BROWN,  PH.D.,  LL.D. 

Commissioner  of  Education  of  the  United  States 

Board  of  Education,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South 

THE  REVEREND  STONEWALL  ANDERSON,  D.D. 
Corresponding  Secretary 

Harvard  University 

ABBOTT  LAWRENCE  LOWELL,  PH.D.,  LL.D. 

President 

St.  John's  College  (Annapolis) 

EDWIN  D.  PUSEY,  A.M. 
Superintendent  of  Schools,  Laurinburg,  North  Carolina 

Yale  University 

FREDERICK  SHEETZ  JONES,  A.M. 
Dean  of  the  College  Faculty 

University  of  Pennsylvania 

WILLIAM  E.  MIKELL,  B.S. 
Professor  of  Law 

Princeton  University 

ANDREW  FLEMING  WEST,  PH.D.,  LL.D.,  D.LITT. 
Dean  of  the  Graduate  School 

Salem  College 

HOWARD  E.  RONDTHALER,  B.D.,  A.M. 
President 


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Washington  and  Lee  University 

THE  REVEREND  EDWARD  R.  LEYBURN,  D.D. 
Pastor  First   Presbyterian   Church,  Durham,  North   Carolina 

Columbia  University 

GEORGE  BRAXTON  PEGRAM,  PH.D. 
Assistant  Professor  of  Physics 

Rutgers  College 
CORNELIUS  VAN  LEUVEN,  B.Sc. 

Dartmouth  College 

GEORGE  AUGUSTUS  GATES,  D.D.,  LL.D. 
President  Fisk  University 

University  of  Georgia 

LINVILLE  LAMERTINE  HENDREN,  PH.D. 
Professor  of  Physics 

University  of  North  Carolina 

FRANCIS  PRESTON  VENABLE,  PH.D.,  LL.D.,  DJS. 

President 

CHARLES  LEE  RAPER,  PH.D. 
Dean  of  the  Graduate  School 

CHARLES  HOLMES  HERTY,  PH.D. 
Dean  of  the  School  of  Applied  Science 

University  of  South  Carolina 

ASHMEAD   COURTENAY   CARSON,   M.A. 

Professor  of  Physics 

University  of  Virginia 

BRUCE  RYBURN  PAYNE,  A.M.,  PH.D. 

Professor  of  Psychology  and  Secondary  Education 

Colby  College 

CHARLES  FRANCIS  MESERVE,  A.M.,  LL.D. 
President  Shaw  University 


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Trinity  College  (Connecticut) 

THE  REVEREND  ISAAC  WAYNE  HUGHES,  A.B. 
Rector,  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Henderson,  North  Carolina 

Western  Reserve  University 

GUSTAV  GEORGE  LAUBSCHER,  PH.D. 

Professor  of  Romance  Languages,  Randolph-Macon  Woman's 

College 

Randolph-Macon  College 

IVEY  FOREMAN  LEWIS,  S.M.,  PH.D. 
Professor  of  Biology 

New  York  University 
JOHN  M.  MANNING,  A.B.,  M.D. 

Wesleyan  University 

ARTHUR  HERBERT  MERITT,  A.B. 
Professor  of  Greek,  Trinity  College 

Pennsylvania  College  (Gettysburg) 
THE  REVEREND  Louis  ALBERT  BIKLE,  A.M.,  D.D. 

Haverford  College 

JOHN  J.  BLAIR,  A.M. 
Superintendent  Schools,  Wilmington,  North  Carolina 

Wake  Forest  College 

BENJAMIN  SLEDD,  A.M.,  LITT.D. 

Professor  of  English 

J.  HENRY  HIGHSMITH,  A.M. 
Professor  of  Education 

EDWARD  PAYSON  MORTON,  A.M.,  PH.D. 
Associate  Professor  of  English 

The  Tulane  University  of  Louisiana 

EDWIN  BOONE  CRAIGHEAD,  A.M.,  LL.D.,  D.C.L. 

President 


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Emory  College 

JAMES  EDWARD  DICKEY,  D.D. 
President 

Emory  and  Henry  College 

JAMES  SHANNON  MILLER,  C.E.,  Sc.D. 
Professor  of  Mathematics 

University  of  Michigan 

THE  HONORABLE  ZEB  VANCE  WALSER,  LL.B. 
Ex-Attorney-General 

Mount  Holyoke  College 

MRS.  ADELIA  GATES  HENSLEY 
Associate  Principal,  Mt.  Vernon  Seminary 

Greensboro  Female  College 

DAVID  LEONIDAS  CLARK,  A.M. 
Professor  of  English 

Ohio  Wesleyan  University 

WILLIAM  PATTERSON  THIRKIELD,  A.M.,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

President  Howard  University 

The  Citadel 
MAJOR  ST.  JAMES  CUMMINGS 

United  States  Naval  Academy 

ROBERT  LEE  FLOWERS,  A.M. 
Professor  of  Mathematics,  Trinity  College 

State  University  of  Iowa 

WILLIAM  CRAIG  WILCOX,  A.M.,  LL.D. 
Dean  of  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts 

Tufts  College 

FREDERICK  WILLIAM  HAMILTON,  A.M.,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

President 


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Wqfford  College 

HENRY  NELSON  SNYDER,  LL.D.,  Lixx.D. 

President 

Louisburg  College 

MRS.  MARY  DAVIS  ALLEN 
President 

Central  College 

RICHARD  WEBB,  A.M. 
President 

Lehigh  University 

WALLACE  CARL  RIDDICK,  C.E. 

Vice-President,   North   Carolina   College   of   Agricultural   and 
Mechanical  Arts 

Purdue  University 

HOWARD  E.  SATTERFIELD,  M.E. 

Professor  of  Mechanical  Engineering,  North  Carolina  College  of 
Agricultural  and  Mechanical  Arts 

University  of  Minnesota 

JOHN  F.  DOWNEY,  A.M.,  C.E. 

Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Dean  of  the  College  of  Science, 
Literature,  and  the  Arts 

Lander  College 

JOHN  OWENS  WILLSON,  D.D. 
President 

Vanderbilt  University 

JAMES  HAMPTON  KIRKLAND,  PH.D.,  LL.D.,  D.C.L. 
Chancellor 

The  Johns  Hopkins  University 

JAMES  CURTIS  BALLAGH,  PH.D.,  LL.D. 
Associate  Professor  of  American  History 


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Georgia  School  of  Technology 

KENNETH  GORDON  MATHESON,  A.M.,  LL.D. 
President 

Guilford  College 

LEWIS  LYNDON  HOBBS,  A.M.,  LL.D. 
President 

North  Carolina  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  Arts 

DANIEL  HARVEY  HILL,  A.M.,  Lnr.D.,  LL.D. 
President 

Clark  University 

HARRY  WOODBURN  CHASE,  PH.D. 

Professor  of  the  Philosophy  of  Education,  University  of 

North  Carolina 

Elon  College 

EMMETT  LEONIDAS  MOFFITT,  A.M.,  LL.D. 
President 

The  University  of  Chicago 

HARRY  PRATT  JUDSON,  A.M.,  LL.D. 
President 

North  Carolina  State  Normal  and  Industrial  College 

JULIUS  I.  FOUST,  LL.D. 
President 

JUNIUS  AYERS  MATHESON,  A.B. 
Professor  of  Education 

Randolph-Macon  Woman's  College 

JOSEPH  L.  ARMSTRONG,  A.M. 
Professor  of  English 

Georgia  Normal  and  Industrial  College 

MARVIN  M.  PARKS,  A.B. 

President 


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Brenan  College 

THOMAS  JACKSON  SIMMONS,  A.M.,  LL.D. 
President 

Winthrop  College 

DAVID  BANCROFT  JOHNSON,  A.M.,  LL.D. 
President 

St.  Mary's  School 

THE  REVEREND  GEORGE  WILLIAM  LAY,  A.B.,  B.D. 
Rector  of  St.  Mary's  School 

Catawba  College 

JOHN  FREDERICK  BUCHHEIT,  A.M. 
President 

Centenary  College  (Tennessee) 

ROBERT  LEE  DURHAM,  B.S. 
Dean  of  Centenary  College 

Peace  Institute 

HENRY  JEROME  STOCKARD,  A.M. 
President 

Institution  for  the  Blind  and  Deaf 

JOHN  E.  RAY,  A.B. 
Principal 

Oxford  Seminary 

F.  P.  HOBGOOD,  A.M. 
President 

Meredith  College 

RICHARD  TILMAN  VANN,  D.D. 
President 

Atlantic  Christian  College 

JESSE  COBB  CALDWELL,  B.D. 
President 


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SPECIALLY  INVITED  GUESTS 


WILLIAM  WALTON  KITCHIN,  A.B. 
Governor  of  North  Carolina 

ELMER  ELLSWORTH  BROWN,  PH.D.,  LL.D. 

Commissioner  of  Education  of  the  United  States 

THE  REVEREND  STONEWALL  ANDERSON,  D.D. 
Corresponding  Secretary,  Board  of  Education,  Methodist  Episcopal 

Church,  South 

WILLIAM  J.  GRISWOLD 
Mayor  of  the  City  of  Durham 

JAMES  S.  MANNING,  LL.D. 
Associate  Justice,  the  Supreme  Court  of  North  Carolina 

BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN  DIXON,  A.B. 

Auditor  of  North  Carolina 

FRED  A.  WOODWARD 
Ex-Member  of  Congress  from  North  Carolina 

IRVING  B.  McKAY 
President  of  Rutherford  College,  Rutherford  College,  North  Carolina 

WILLIAM  THORNTON  WHITSETT,  PH.D. 
President  of  Whitsett  Institute,  Whitsett,  North  Carolina 

HUGH  M.  BLAIR 

Editor,  ll North  Carolina  Christian  Advocate,"  Greensboro, 
North  Carolina 

Lucius  S.  MASSEY,  A.B. 
Editor,  "Raleigh  Christian  Advocate,"  Raleigh,  North  Carolina 


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HARVEY  B.  CRAVEN,  A.B. 
Superintendent,  City  Schools,  New  Bern,  North  Carolina 

WILLIAM  DONALD  CARMICHAEL,  A.B. 
Superintendent,  City  Schools,  Durham,  North  Carolina 


ALUMNI 

[There  was  a  large  number  of  alumni  present,  but,  since  the 
cards  on  which  they  enrolled  were  destroyed  by  the  fire,  it  is  impossible 
to  print  the  list.] 


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TRUSTEES  AND  FACULTY  OF  TRINITY 
COLLEGE 


BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

Those  marked  with  (t)  were  present  at  the  inauguration 

OFFICERS 

tj.  H.  SOUTHGATE,  President  ..................  Durham,  N.C. 

T.  F.  MARR,  Vice-President  ...................  Winston,  N.C. 

JD.  W.  NEWSOM,  Secretary  ....................  Durham,  N.C. 

J.  A.  GRAY,  Treasurer  ........................  Winston,  N.C. 

EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE 

tj.  H.  SOUTHGATE,  ex  officio  ...................  Durham,  N.C. 

tW.  P.  FEW,  ex  officio  .........................  Durham,  N.C. 

jj.  E.  STAGG  .................................  Durham,  N.C. 

jj.  C.  KILGO  .................................  Durham,  N.C. 

JB.  N.  DUKE  .................  ...............  Durham,  N.C. 

JC.  W.  TOMS  ................................  Durham,  N.C. 

JG.  W.  FLOWERS  .............................  Durham,  N.C. 

MEMBERS  OF  THE  BOARD 

Term  Expires  December  31, 


{MR.  J.  E.  STAGG  ............................  Durham,  N.C. 

COL.  J.  F.  BRUTON  ...........................  Wilson,  N.C. 

*HON.  KOPE  ELIAS  ...........................  Bryson  City,  N.C. 

JCOL.  G.  W.  FLOWERS  ........................  Durham,  N.C. 

MR.  P.  H.  HANES  ...........................  Winston,  N.C. 

tMR.  J.  A.  LONG  .............................  Roxboro,  N.C. 

REV.  T.  F.  MARR,  D.D  .......................  Winston,  N.C. 

REV.  S.  B.  TURRENTINE,  D.D  .................  Shelby,  N.C. 

FROM  THE  ALUMNI 

DR.  W.  G.  BRADSHAW,  '77  ....................  High  Point,  N.C. 

JMR.  J.  G.  BROWN  ............................  Raleigh,  N.C. 

JDR.  DRED  PEACOCK,  '87  ......................  High  Point,  N.C. 

JDR.  E.  T.  WHITE,  '78  ........................  Oxford,  N.C. 

*  Deceased. 


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Term  Expires  December  37, 

JBiSHOP  J.  C.  KILGO Durham,  N.C. 

MR.  W.  E.  SPRINGER Wilmington,  N.C. 

JREV.  J.  N.  COLE Raleigh,  N.C. 

HON.  W.  J.  MONTGOMERY Concord,  N.C. 

DR.  E.  C.  REGISTER Charlotte,  N.C. 

REV.  J.  R.  SCROGGS Charlotte,  N.C. 

HON.  W.  D.  TURNER Statesville,  N.C. 

{MR.  C.  W.  TOMS Durham,  N.C. 

FROM   THE   ALUMNI 

MR.  H.  B.  ADAMS,  '70 Monroe,  N.C. 

JREV.  J.  B.  HURLEY,  '83 New  Bern,  N.C. 

JMR.  R.  L.  DURHAM,  '91 Cleveland,  Tenn. 

REV.  F.  A.  BISHOP Dunn,  N.C. 

Term  Expires  December  ji,  ip/5 

COL.  J.  W.  ALSPAUGH Winston,  N.C. 

JMR.  B.  N.  DUKE Durham,  N.C. 

MR.  J.  A.  GRAY Winston,  N.C. 

MR.  W.  R.  ODELL Concord,  N.C. 

{MR.  H.  A.  PAGE Aberdeen,  N.C. 

JHON.  J.  H.  SOUTHGATE , . . Durham,  N.C. 

MR.  FRANK  M.  WEAVER Asheville,  N.C. 

REV.  A.  P.  TYER Maxton,  N.C. 

FROM   THE   ALUMNI 

HON.  L.  S.  OVERMAN,  '74 Salisbury,  N.C. 

J*REV.  W.  L.  CUNINGGIM Raleigh,  N.C. 

JMR.  R.  A.  MAYER,  '96 Charlotte,  N.C. 

HON.  F.  M.  SIMMONS,  LL.D.,  '73 New  Bern,  N.C. 

*  Deceased. 


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FACULTY  AND  INSTRUCTORS 

WILLIAM  PRESTON  FEW,  A.M.,  PH.D. 

President  and  Professor  of  English 

WILLIAM  HOWELL  PEGRAM,  A.B.,  A.M. 

Professor  of  Chemistry 

ROBERT  LEE  FLOWERS,  A.M. 

Professor  of  Mathematics 

JOHN  CARLISLE  KILGO,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

Lecturer  in  the  Department  of  Biblical  Literature 

WILLIAM  IVEY  CRANFORD,  A.B.,  PH.D. 

Dean  and  Carr  Professor  of  Philosophy 

ARTHUR  HERBERT  MERITT,  A.B. 

Professor  of  Greek 

CHARLES  WILLIAM  EDWARDS,  A.M.,  M.S. 

Professor  of  Physics 

*WILLIAM  HENRY  GLASSON,  PH.D. 

Professor  of  Political  Economy  and  Social  Science 

WILLIAM  FRANCIS  GILL,  A.B. 

Professor  of  Latin 

ALBERT  MICAJAH  WEBB,  A.B.,  A.M. 

Professor  of  Romance  Languages 

WILLIAM  HANE  WANNAMAKER,  A.B.,  A.M. 

Professor  of  German 

On  leave  of  absence  1910-11. 


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JAMES  JACOB  WOLFE,  PH.D. 

Professor  of  Biology 

WILLIAM  KENNETH  BOYD,  PH.D. 

Professor  of  History 

tJOHN  COUNCIL  WOOTEN,  A.B.,  B.D. 

Professor  of  Biblical  Literature 

EUGENE  CLYDE  BROOKS,  A.B. 

Professor  of  the  History  and  Science  of  Education 

SAMUEL  FOX  MORDECAI 
Dean  of  Law  School  and  Professor  of  Law 

ROBERT  PERCY  READE,  A.B.,  LL.B. 

Associate  Professor  of  Law 

JULIAN  BLANCHARD,  A.B.,  A.M. 

Professor  of  Engineering 

FRANK  CLYDE  BROWN,  A.M.,  PH.D. 

Professor  of  English 

ARTHUR  MATHEWS  GATES,  PH.D. 

Assistant  Professor  of  Latin 

CHARLES  BLACKWELL  MARKHAM,  A.B.,  A.M. 

Assistant  Professor  of  Mathematics 

WILLIAM  THOMAS  LAPRADE,  PH.D. 

Assistant  Professor  of  History 

HERSEY  EVERETT  SPENCE,  A.B.,  A.M. 

Assistant  Professor  of  English 

ROBINSON  GREGG  ANDERSON,  LL.B. 

Professor  of  Law 

ROBERT  NORTH  WILSON,  A.B.,  M.S. 

Assistant  Professor  of  Chemistry 

t  Resigned  January  i,  IQII. 


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JOHN  ALLEN  MORGAN,  A.B.,  A.M. 

Assistant  Professor  of  Political  Economy 

ARTHUR  LEWIS  McCOBB,  A.B.,  A.M. 

Assistant  Professor  of  Modern  Languages 

WILBUR  WADE  CARD,  A.B. 

Director  of  Angler  Duke  Gymnasium 

FRANK  NICHOLAS  EGERTON,  JR.,  A.B. 

Instructor  in  Engineering 

PHILLIP  JEFFERSON  JOHNSON,  A.B. 

Instructor  in  Physics 

BEALE  JENNINGS  FAUCETTE,  A.B. 

Assistant  in  English 

ALFRED  WHITSETT  HORTON,  A.B. 

Assistant  in  English 

JAMES  LAFAYETTE  HUTCHISON,  A.B. 

Assistant  in  English 

CLAUDE  BASCOM  WEST,  A.B. 

Assistant  in  English 


OFTHE 

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